My Dear Boy : A World War II Story of Escape, Exile, and Revelation /
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln, Nebraska :
Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; My Flight; 1. Valdik's Story; 2. Bohemian Recollections; 3. A World at War; 4. A House of Many Rooms; 5. "Without Books, History Is Silent"; 6. Proud Czechs First; 7. As if Stopped Mid-Gesture-Cafe Mánes; 8. In Service of a Doomed Country; 9. Compassionate Strangers; 10. The Long Route to China; 11. China Pulls Me In; 12. A World Apart; 13. Snowdrifts, Machine Guns, and Prayers; 14. Learning to Love Peking and Its Forbidden City; 15. Outback of Nowhere-Pingting
- 16. Love Breathes Life into the Heart17. Leaving China; 18. From Freedom to Infamy; 19. A New Life in a New World; 20. The Letter That Changed Everything; 21. Dealing with the Outcome; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Index; About Joanie Holzer Schirm


