No Bullet Got Me Yet: The Relentless Faith of Father Kapaun – A 2025 Kansas Notable Book and WWII Nonfiction History

A 2025 KANSAS NOTABLE BOOK

The incredible story of Father Emil Kapaun, the most decorated chaplain in US military history, who has been declared “Venerable” by Pope Francis and is now a step closer to Sainthood.

Father Emil Kapaun, a humble priest from rural Kansas, went far beyond the call of duty during World War II and the Korean War. Unarmed and often at the side of combat medics on the front lines, he ministered to the soldiers he called “my boys,” earning the Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross, and the Legion of Merit. Writer John Stansifer spent nearly a decade interviewing veterans and ex-POWs, drawing on the National Archives and rare access to thousands of unseen documents. Told by Kapaun’s friends, family, and fellow soldiers, and in his own words through letters spanning the 1930s to the battlefields of Korea, No Bullet Got Me Yet traces it all: masses celebrated on the hood of a jeep, a defiant ministry inside a North Korean prison camp, and the decades-long search that finally brought him home.

Evil, death, and darkness don’t get the final word in this moving portrait of a man whose love for God gave him the courage to lay down his life for his friends.