The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War by Louise Steinman English

The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War by Louise Steinman EnglishLouise Steinmans American childhood in the fifties was bound by one unequivocal condition: Never mention the war to your father. That silence sustained itself until the fateful day Steinman opened an old ammunition box left behind after her parents death. In it, she discovered nearly 500 letters her father had written to her mother during his service in the Pacific War and a Japanese flag mysteriously inscribed to Yoshio Shimizu. Setting out to

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ISBN-10 : 971272659-2

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