Anne's book is in my P.O.
Box! Immediately I stepped to a stand-up table and opened the package, just to take a quick look. Twenty minutes later
I realized that I was standing in a post office and still reading, captivated by Anne Bates
Linden and her Assumptions and Misunderstandings, Memoir of an Unwitting Spy.
Anne
Bates Linden, I have come to admire her persistent courage which obviously started long before her adult Peace Corps assignment
to Ukraine shortly after their Declaration of Independence. Her personal account confirms everything I have read and been
told about Ukraine of those days. She is brutally honest about her own frailties and the situation in which she found
herself.
Before finishing her
page turner I was mentally begging her to get out of there, pack a handbag and leave, please. Anne has more courage
than most. Her modest little book should be in libraries, on home book shelves and given as special gifts to friends who don't
know what can happen to an intelligent and beautiful people beset by centuries of absolutely corrupt foreign tyranny. Even
now Anne is preparing to go back and continue her work for the helpless, the Orphans in Ukraine. Courage, persistence
and boundless love describe Anne Bates Linden.
David Cottrell
