John George Stoessinger
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
190 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When John Stoessinger was ten years old, Adolf Hitler annexed his homeland of Austria, ripping the boy from his home and his friends in Vienna. His grandparents encouraged his mother and stepfather to take young John somewhere safe. 'You must have a future,' his grandfather told him before John and his parents boarded the train and waved goodbye. As they trekked across the country, from Vienna to Prague and then finally settling in Shanghai, there...