Conformist Kraut to Contentious Canuck

Despite a perilous childhood in Nazi Germany and immigration from Germany to Canada in 1951 Herb Duerr finds all but a few things amusing and he never fails to write about the world as he sees it based on his extensive travel and fascinating experiences.</p>Following <I>The Unhyphenated Canuck</I> and several autobiographical books Duerr has done it again with stimulating musings and personal adventures that cover fifty years of historical cultural and social evolution in the Canadian milieu-just as he lived it.</p><I>Conformist Kraut to Contentious Canuck</I> portrays Duerr's struggle to become Canadian by conviction and commitment. Providing entertainment and information in equal measure this collection follows Duerr's progress as he confronts the challenges of a strange new world in the context of historical facts and causes.</p>His observations are embarrassingly revealing ominously critical and impertinently controversial in relation to current affairs. Duerr's opinions are both contentious and refreshingly playful. In his words I documented my experiences and views never hesitating to reveal my ignorance folly or just bloody-mindedness.</p>Using pertinent anecdotes and self-deprecating humour Duerr's latest thoughts will fuel your interest from beginning to end.