God's Angry Man: The Incredible Journey of Private Joe Haan
By: B. Wayne Quist

Col. B. Wayne Quist chronicles the heartache and triumph of a decorated World War II hero, and through surviving essays, poetry and letters, brings readers up close and personal with an amazing and sometimes controversial member of America's "Greatest Generation".

Joe haan was orphaned at age seven during the Great Depression and indentured as a virtual slave to a brutal farmer for eight long years. Yet he emerged as a self-educated survivor and World War II heros under General Patton during the Battle of the Bulge, America's largest and bloodiest World War II battle. Haan raised two sons in Houston, TX and was a Lifetime Member of Houston's Ironworkers Local 84.

What people are saying about God's Angry Man: The Incredible Journey of Private Joe Haan

"Private Joe Haan was a Minnesota boy who endured the unendurable and emerged a great man. A poet and musician, a Purple Heart hero of World War II, and a self-educated man who rose from the bleakness of the Depression. This is a book of hard-earned wisdom."

- Garrison Keillor, author and host of radio's A Prairie Home Companion

"God's Angry Man achieves exactly what we strive towards here at The National World War II Museum: to tell the story of WWII through the eyes of those citizen soldiers who were there."

- Gordon H. "Nick" Mueller, PHD, President and CEO, The National World War II Museum New Orleans

"Private Joe Haan's violent combat experience in Patton's Third Army in WWII is noted most vividly through his writings penned while sharing a foxhole with a dead German soldier in Alsace-Lorraine, France. This is an inspirational true story of one man's victory in his struggle for survival. A remarkable journey ... a must read."

- Lieutenant General Thomas G. McInerney, USAF (Ret), Former Assistant Vice Chief of Staff, United States Air Force