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- catalog abstract ""When Louise Steinman was growing up, her father never talked about his experiences in the Pacific during WWII. All she knew was that Asian food was banned from the house and that she was never to cry in front of him. Years later, she made a chance discovery. Hidden among her late parent's belongings was an old ammunition box; inside were almost five hundred letters her father had written to her mother during the war and a silk Japanese flag inscribed in elegant calligraphy, "To Yoshio Shimizu given to him in the Greater East Asia War to be fought to the end. If you believe in it, you win." Who was Yoshio Shimizu, and why did her father have his flag?" "The Souvenir is Steinman's quest to find out what happened to her father, the men he fought with, and the men he fought against. She crosses the world to the snow country of Japan to find the family of Yoshio Shimizu and return his flag. She visits the battlefield in the Philippines where her father and the men of his Twenty-fifth Infantry Division fought in a brutal campaign that set a record for consecutive days of combat." "From her conversations with veterans on both sides of the war, she comes to appreciate the life of a soldier and discovers, through her father's letters, the man she never knew - one who was brave, passionate, and scared. And, astonishingly, she develops a kinship with the surviving family of his enemy." "Weaving together her father's raw, poignant letters with her own journey, Steinman presents a view of how war changed one generation and shaped another."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12237093.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""The Souvenir is Steinman's quest to find out what happened to her father, the men he fought with, and the men he fought against. She crosses the world to the snow country of Japan to find the family of Yoshio Shimizu and return his flag. She visits the battlefield in the Philippines where her father and the men of his Twenty-fifth Infantry Division fought in a brutal campaign that set a record for consecutive days of combat." "From her conversations with veterans on both sides of the war, she comes to appreciate the life of a soldier and discovers, through her father's letters, the man she never knew - one who was brave, passionate, and scared. And, astonishingly, she develops a kinship with the surviving family of his enemy."".
- catalog description ""Weaving together her father's raw, poignant letters with her own journey, Steinman presents a view of how war changed one generation and shaped another."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""When Louise Steinman was growing up, her father never talked about his experiences in the Pacific during WWII. All she knew was that Asian food was banned from the house and that she was never to cry in front of him. Years later, she made a chance discovery. Hidden among her late parent's belongings was an old ammunition box; inside were almost five hundred letters her father had written to her mother during the war and a silk Japanese flag inscribed in elegant calligraphy, "To Yoshio Shimizu given to him in the Greater East Asia War to be fought to the end. If you believe in it, you win." Who was Yoshio Shimizu, and why did her father have his flag?"".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-237).".
- catalog description "Somewhere at Sea -- Stateside -- The Pharmacist -- The Flag -- Into the Deep -- A Melancholy Slav -- Speculation -- The Gift -- Japan -- Bombs under Tokyo -- Shrine of the Peaceful Country -- Shadows -- Amazing Grace -- The Philippines -- The American Cemetery -- Journey to Balete Pass -- Promised Land -- Suibara -- Swans in the Morning -- Flyover.".
- catalog extent "xii, 241 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Souvenir.".
- catalog identifier "1565123107 (hc) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Souvenir.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,".
- catalog relation "Souvenir.".
- catalog spatial "Japan.".
- catalog spatial "Philippines.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "940.54/25 B 21".
- catalog subject "Pharmacists United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Steinman family.".
- catalog subject "Steinman, Louise.".
- catalog subject "Steinman, Norman, 1915-1990.".
- catalog subject "Steinman, Norman, 1919-1990.".
- catalog subject "U53.S74 S74 2001".
- catalog subject "United States. Army Biography.".
- catalog subject "United States. Army. Infantry Division, 25th Biography.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Biography.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Philippines.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Japan.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Somewhere at Sea -- Stateside -- The Pharmacist -- The Flag -- Into the Deep -- A Melancholy Slav -- Speculation -- The Gift -- Japan -- Bombs under Tokyo -- Shrine of the Peaceful Country -- Shadows -- Amazing Grace -- The Philippines -- The American Cemetery -- Journey to Balete Pass -- Promised Land -- Suibara -- Swans in the Morning -- Flyover.".
- catalog title "The souvenir : a daughter discovers her father's war / by Louise Steinman.".
- catalog type "text".