A Beautiful World - Gone The travels and observations of a young man from Minnesota on his journey throughout Europe at the onslaught of WW II. by Winston Oberg

The story of a nineteen-year-old college student's "grand tour" of Europe on a shoe-string as the clouds of World War II gathered and broke. At that time the University of Minnesota's "The Literary Review" published excerpts under the title: "Prelude ... Europe, Summer, 1939." In 1941, "Prelude" was awarded the Literary Review prize.