Using Family Stories—or Not

From the very beginning, I was fascinated by the stories my uncle told of his experiences during WWII. But, as I began to write Immigrant Soldier, I wanted the book to be more than just a war story. I wanted to write about the forces, both political and personal, that changed him from a frustrated teenager into a confident man, and I wanted to show what it was like to be a refugee in the United States in the 1940s.

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