The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father’s War
Louise Steinman
288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
ISBN: 0452283655
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Language: English
Publish: September 24, 2002
BiographyBiography MemoirHistoricalHistoryJapanMemoirNonfictionWarWorld War II
After finding a box containing letters her father had written to her mother during World War II, as well as a Japanese flag bearing a profound inscription, the author embarks on a mission to discover what happened to her father and the men of his Twenty-fifth Infantry, which takes her all the way to Japan to return the flag to its rightful owner, where she forms a bond with the surviving family and ultimately discovers a side of her father she never knew. Reprint.