Unplanned roundtrip.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klein, Arthur O.

Contributor:

Althea Hottel and Abraham S. Hottel, Jr. Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Biography.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.

Genre:

Biographies.

Personal narratives -- American.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

vii, 108 pages : illustrations ; cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Hamilton Books, 2009.

Summary:

An Unplanned Roundtrip recounts author Arthur O. Klein's transition from life in a middle class Jewish home in prewar 1930s Vienna to a new life as an American citizen after serving in the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps in 1947. Beginning with the entry of Adolf Hitler into Vienna in March 1938, Klein's memoir details the subsequent separation of his family in August 1938 as he and his father were forced to leave his mother and sister and flee to Luxembourg and their eventual reunion in September 1939. Klein describes moving through France, Spain, Portugal, and Cuba before arriving in the U.S. in early 1945, where he was immediately drafted into the U.S. Army. His memoir includes a description of his training as a Special Agent of the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps and of his eventual discharge after a serious car accident in West Germany in December 1946.

Contents:

1 Vienna 1927-1938 1

2 Luxembourg 1938-1940 10

3 Occupied France 1940 23

4 Vichy France Fall of 1940-December 7, 1941 34

5 Lisbon, Portugal December 10, 1941-Late January 1942 48

6 Crossing the Atlantic on the Nyassa in January and February 1942 52

7 Habana from February 1942 to the Beginning of 1945 57

8 You Are in the Army Now (Beginning of 1945 to March 1947) 73.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Althea Hottel and Abraham S. Hottel, Jr. Fund.

ISBN:

076184340X

9780761843405

OCLC:

266915958