School Time in Germany -- Transition to the United States and Undergraduate Life at Princeton University -- Graduate Study and War Work at Caltech -- Work at the University of California Radiation Laboratory -- Military Work at Berkeley and the Loyalty Oath -- Beginnings at Stanford -- Research and Teaching Before SLAC -- Science Advising and Arms Control: The Beginnings -- Establishing SLAC -- Building a Laboratory -- Physics and the Cold War -- Student Unrest at Stanford -- Fixed Target Research at SLAC -- New Facilities-Colliding Beams -- International High Energy Physics -- Advances in Accelerator-Based High-Energy Physics -- Science and Politics After Retirement.

Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky is a prominent physicist who has been an active contributor to elementary particle physics, accelerator building, and laboratory administration as well as to international security policy and arms control. This volume is a somewhat unorthodox memoir. In Panofsky's words: "This volume contains an unsystematic account of my past work; it is not intended to be an autobiography in the conventional meaning of the term. It is not even remotely a scholarly description of the momentous developments in which I was able to participate; rather it is a recital of memorable episodes, borrowing from the compulsory preface of facetious British history: 'History is not what you thought. It is what you can remember.' " Pief