Timmons, William V.

WILLIAM TIMMONS has spent 27 years living and traveling in 50 countries, collecting experiences and stories. He's taught English to the president of a West African country, served as a missionary in the Philippines, and worked with child welfare programs in slums, prisons, and orphanages in Thailand for which he received a Royal Decoration from that country's king. He has also dined with presidents, prime ministers, and an occasional drug lord. He spent three years collecting stories and information about the 300,000 German POWs incarcerated in the United States. Many of the book's stories com...