Pattern of Circles: An Ambassador's Story Book

Talk about an interesting life...sheesh, he makes mine seem so mundane! But I did enjoy this book by the former American Ambassador to Luxembourg, especially since he grew up partly in Akron where I currently work and he went to college at Miami, majored in psych, and was involved in their extenisve Greek life system as well, just like I was also. He then worked for Miami for many years and helped expand and grow it and specifically their Alumni program too. As a lifetime Alum member, I love Miami and really could relate to many of the the places and people the author wrote about in this book about his life.
Another fascinating part of the book were the chapters about the author's days as a soldier in World War II and especially his job as a Nazi leader interrogator once the war ended. Reading about this was like history coming alive to me. Very interesting and often tough to put the book down when I really needed to get to sleep several nights!
I think I would have liked to read more about his and his wife's life once they came back from Luxembourg though, and once they started to live in the Cincinnati/Oxford area again as regular citizens. I guess I did not want him to end the story when he did, after reading so much about his life up unil then! He had me hooked!
This book was actually recommended to me by a friend in Akron who is personally close friends with the author and he made the book even more fun to read as he showed me his private photo album of a trip he and his wife took to Luxembourg as a guest of the author and his wife. The photos were beautiful and just as I had imagined it should be there. I only regret that I did not spend a semester at Miami's Luxembourg campus when I had the opportunity while in college at MU. (The author was instrumental in getting the Luxembourg campus of MU started!)
A very enjoyable read if you like Miami, Luxembourg, or WWII history in particular!