The box from Braunau in search of my father's war /

• Main Author: Elvin, Jan.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : American Management Association, ©2009.
• Subjects: Elvin, William John.; Braunau (Concentration camp); United States. > Army. > Infantry Division, 80th (1942-1946) > Biography.; World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > France > Normandy.; World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > Liberation > Austria.; Soldiers > Biography. > United States; Soldiers.; World War, 1939-1945.; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.; HISTORY > World War II. > Military; Electronic books.
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A beautifully-wrought and elegiac look at one woman's search to understand the ravages of war through the eyes of her father.

Table of Contents:

• PROLOGUE: A Box Full of Memories; CHAPTER ONE: "Mark Your Socks"; CHAPTER TWO: The Golden Boy; CHAPTER THREE: Life in the Foxhole; CHAPTER FOUR: "Don't Surprise Your Father"; CHAPTER FIVE: "Elvin, Can You Take This Town?"; CHAPTER SIX: A Door Closes and Another Door Opens; CHAPTER SEVEN: The Gift of the Box; CHAPTER EIGHT: The Unbroken Circle; CHAPTER NINE: KZ-Ebensee; CHAPTER TEN: Old Soldiers and Reunions; CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Box from Braunau; AFTERWORD; APPENDIX A: Army Organization in World War II; APPENDIX B: My Father's Wartime Itinerary.