SHAN

About the Book

This is the story of a 17 year old private who earned his spurs as a horse cavalryman at Fort Riley, Kansas and then found himself in the jungles of Burma. He was no longer a proud trooper, he became a dogface, an infantryman fighting not only the tenacious Japanese but the jungle monsoons, malaria and other diseases. His life became a series of adventures taking him to China and the ultimate challenge.

About the Author

Walter H. Olson enlisted to fight in World War II along with hundreds of thousands of other young men. Born in Chicago in the late 1920s, Wally has lived a full life as a soldier, a steelworker on high-rises in Chicago during the 1950s, a radio broadcaster, a salesman and most recently as a writer.