Coming to Colorado: A Young Immigrant's Journey to Become an American Flyer

In his acclaimed memoir German Boy: A Refugee’s Story, Wolfgang W. E. Samuel relates his experiences as a child surviving war and its hellish aftermath in occupied Germany. On January 24, 1951, exactly six years after his traumatic flight from Russian tanks, Samuel finds himself standing at the railing of a ship taking him to the land of his dreams—America.

Coming to Colorado is the story of a refugee from war and deprivation, who at age sixteen, not understanding a word of English and with...