Leon Wolff

Leon Wolff was an author who wrote In Flanders Fields

Biography Wolff was born in November 1914, to a Jewish family, the son of a traveling salesman, and grew up in Chicago. He had graduated from Northwestern University, then served in the USA as a second lieutenant in the US Army Air Force during World War II.

After the war he started a correspondence school, the Lincoln School of Practical Nursing, in Chicago. In 1953, he and his family moved to Los Angeles, where he would transplant the business and cultivated his interests in golf and jazz. Wolff wrote four books over the next dozen years. Low Level Mission (1957) described the bombing of the Ploesti oil fields, in Romania, by the United States Army Air Force during WWII. In Flanders Field: The 1917 Campaign (1958), an account of the World War I offensive in 1917, otherwise known as the Third Battle of Ypres, or Passchendaele. Wolff also wrote Little Brown Brother (1961), originally subtitled How the United States Purchased and Pacified the Philippine Islands at the Century's Turn, then wrote a final book, Lockout (1965), The Story of the Homestead Steel Strike.