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" The box from Braunau : "
Jan Elvin.
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BL
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948182
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b702552
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| Main Entry
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Elvin, Jan.
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The box from Braunau : : in search of my father's war /\ Jan Elvin.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: AMACOM/American Management Association,, ©2009.
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xxviii, 237 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations, map ;; 24 cm
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0814410499
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: 9780814410493
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-230) and index.
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| Contents
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A box full of memories -- "Mark your socks" -- The golden boy -- Life in the foxhole -- "Don't surprise your father" -- "Elvin, can you take this town?" -- A door closes and another door opens -- The gift of the box -- The unbroken circle -- KZ-Ebensee -- Old soldiers and reunions -- The box from Braunau -- Army organization in World War II -- My father's wartime itinerary -- Glossary of terms and military acronyms -- Sources for information on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for veterans -- How to search for your father's war.
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As a small child, Jan Elvin thought very little about the tin box with the simple inscription her father had brought home from World War II. To her young eyes, it seemed ordinary enough, featuring a rough etching of a man and woman with the words, Braunau 1944. What she would later discover is that the box had been a gift from an inmate at a German slave labor camp when her father was just a young soldier. And what it contained would start her on a long journey to uncover some of the fascinating and horrifying history surrounding the Second World War--as well as a search to understand the man forever haunted by its memories. The Box from Braunau is both a memoir of a father-daughter relationship damaged by the ghosts of war, and a chronicle of a World War II veteran whose return to civilian life was permanently scarred by nightmares of combat and concentration camps. We explore the lives of Bill Elvin and his daughter through excerpts from the diary he kept during the war and private letters, as well as newspaper articles he wrote as a journalist on his return. We follow him from his first days on the battlefield as a lieutenant in Pattons Army to his time at the Ebensee concentration camp where he witnessed firsthand the prisoners sufferings brought about by Nazi atrocities. Through his life, we gain a new understanding of the War and its effects on the men and women who fought in it. Featuring exclusive interviews with family members and fellow soldiers, as well as with survivors of the camps, The Box from Braunau is an illuminating look at war through the eyes of one family. --Publisher's description.
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Elvin, William John.
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Elvin, William John.
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United States.
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United States.
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United States.
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Braunau (Concentration camp)
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Braunau (Concentration camp)
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Braunau (Concentration camp)
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Soldiers-- United States, Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945-- Campaigns-- France-- Normandy.
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World War, 1939-1945-- Concentration camps-- Liberation-- Austria.
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Military campaigns.
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Soldat
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Soldiers-- United States, Biography.
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Soldiers.
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Weltkrieg
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World War, 1939-1945-- Campaigns-- Normandy (France)
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Austria.
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France, Normandy.
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United States.
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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940.54/1273092B
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| LC Classification
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D756.5.N6E35 2009
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940.5412 E51b
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