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Once They Had a Country : Two Teenage Refugees in the Second World War.

Muriel Gillick draws from a remarkable set of primary source materials, including letters, telegrams, and police records to relate the story of two teenage refugees during World War II. Once They Had a Country conveys well what it was like to establish a new life in a foreign country--over and over...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Gillick, Muriel R.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2010.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Becoming Refugees; 2. The Alarm Sounds; 3. From Bürger to Beggar; 4. Refugees in the Free Zone; 5. Lord of the Flies in Reverse; 6. "The Lifeboat Is Full"; 7. What They Were Running From; 8. Transmigrants; 9. Refuge in Shanghai; 10. Post- Traumatic Stress; 11. Brazilian Detour; 12. "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor"; Epilogue; Notes; A Note on Sources; Index.