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The Wooden Bazooka

By: Karl Heinz Johannsmeier
Narrated by: Dannul Dailey
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Publisher's Summary

This autobiography, The Wooden Bazooka, is a story of manifold drama too vivid, improbable, and intensely personal to have been conjured up by a novelist. 

From orphanage to battlefront to prison camp to board room and beyond, Karl Heinz Johannsmeier spins a fast-paced narrative of incredible span and trajectory, a testimony to the power of optimism and tenacity to outwit death, overcome defeat, and engineer triumph. Few individuals have proven so dramatically that the American Dream of success is indeed alive and well. 

About the Author

Karl Heinz Johannsmeier is a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He currently lives, works, and paints in San Francisco, where he recently exhibited over 20 modern (abstract) paintings at the Academy of Art gallery. A catalog of his paintings is available. 

Mr. Johannsmeier has also been profiled and interviewed on German television stations such as ZDF. The German translation of his autobiography, Neun Leben sind night genug, appeared in bookstores in September 1998.

©1999, 2022 Karl Heinz Johannsmeier (P)2022 West Coast Endeavors

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