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1 online resource (xv, 336 pages) : illustrations |
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Illustrations; Preface; CHAPTER 1. The Way Things Were; CHAPTER 2. A Child Once More; CHAPTER 3. Leaving for America; CHAPTER 4. USNS: George W. Goethals; CHAPTER 5. Coming to Colorado; CHAPTER 6. Emily Griffith Opportunity School; CHAPTER 7. Hedwig Grapentin; CHAPTER 8. Settling In; CHAPTER 9. East High School; CHAPTER 10. A Distant Goal; CHAPTER 11. Ingrid's Return; CHAPTER 12. High School Graduation; CHAPTER 13. A Taste of Failure; CHAPTER 14. On a Colorado Morning; CHAPTER 15. Lackland Air Force Base, Texas; CHAPTER 16. Flight 698; CHAPTER 17. Carswell Air Force Base, Texas |
| Summary |
In his acclaimed memoir German Boy: A Refugee's Story, Wolfgang W.E. Samuel relates his experiences as a child surviving war and its hellish aftermath in occupied Germany. On January 24, 1951, exactly six years after his traumatic flight from Russian tanks, Samuel finds himself standing at the railing of a ship taking him to the land of his dreams--America. Coming to Colorado is the story of a refugee from war and deprivation, who at age sixteen, not understanding a word of English and with barely an eighth-grade education, leaves behind all that is familiar. Scarred by the violence, rape, and death he has seen, Samuel must first learn to be a boy again. But every relationship he tries to build must overcome the specter of his childhood experience in World War II and the chaos that followed |
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Continues: German boy |
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Samuel, Wolfgang W. E.
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Samuel, Wolfgang W. E. fast |
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United States. Air Force -- Biography
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United States. Air Force fast |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Biography
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Air pilots, Military -- United States -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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HISTORY -- Military -- Aviation.
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Air pilots, Military
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Refugees
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Colorado -- Biography
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Colorado
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United States
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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Samuel, Wolfgang W. E.
German boy
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| ISBN |
9781604731330 |
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1604731338 |
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