Nancy Forster has recently published a biography/memoir about the remarkable life of her late husband, Cliff.  ENCOUNTERS: A Lifetime Spent Crossing Cultural Frontiers is a book which will appeal to readers who ponder and care about international relations, as well as those who delight in stories about foreign adventure.

Born and raised in Asia during the tumultuous years leading to World War II, following internment by the Japanese at sixteen Clifton Forster chose a career using dialogue, not confrontation, to solve international disputes.  For over three decades in the U.S. Foreign Service -in the Philippines, Japan, Burma, and Israel - he practiced “public diplomacy.” Nancy Forster combined his records and her own into an account of the encounters and passions of a lifetime devoted to international understanding.

 An “encounter” of special interest for World War II veterans was his discovery of a monument to General Masaharu Homma in a remote part of Japan, which led to serious research about the officer who was responsible for the conquest of the Philippines and Forster’s teenage captivity.  For more information and to read about that encounter, visit www.windshadowpress.com.