Joanie Holzer Schirm was the founding president of Geotechnical and Environmental Consultants, Inc., in Orlando, Florida. After selling her engineering business, she is now a full-time writer, speaker, and curator of the Holzer Collection, her father’s World War II legacy. Schirm is the author of Adventurers Against Their Will: Extraordinary World War II Stories of Survival, Escape, and Connection-Unlike Any Others, winner of the Global Ebook Award for best biography.
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List of Illustrations Introduction: How Emptying Boxes Filled My Life My Flight, by Vladik Holzer 1. Vladik's Story: A Gifted Life 2. Bohemian Recollections: Pre-1914 3. A World at War: 1914 4. A House of Many Rooms: 1918 5. "Without Books, History is Silent": 1919-1929 6. Proud Czechs First: 1931-1937 7. As if Stopped Mid-Gesture–Cafe Manes: 1930s 8. In Service of a Doomed Country: 1937-1939 9. Compassionate Strangers: March 31-May 22, 1939 10. The Long Route to China: May 22-July 7, 1939 11. China Pulls Me In: July-September 1939 12. A World Apart: September-December 31, 1939 13. Snowdrifts, Machine Guns, and Prayers: January 1940 14. Learning to Love Peking and Its Forbidden City: February-April 1940 15. Outback of Nowhere–Pingting: May-July 1940 16. Love Breathes Life into the Heart: August-October 1940 17. Leaving China: October 1940-February 1941 18. From Freedom to Infamy: March-December 1941 19. A New Life in a New World: January 1942-May 1945 20. The Letter That Changed Everything: August 1945 21. Dealing with the Outcome: 1945-1952 Epilogue Acknowledgements Index
List of Illustrations Introduction: How Emptying Boxes Filled My Life My Flight, by Vladik Holzer 1. Vladik's Story: A Gifted Life 2. Bohemian Recollections: Pre-1914 3. A World at War: 1914 4. A House of Many Rooms: 1918 5. "Without Books, History is Silent": 1919-1929 6. Proud Czechs First: 1931-1937 7. As if Stopped Mid-Gesture–Cafe Manes: 1930s 8. In Service of a Doomed Country: 1937-1939 9. Compassionate Strangers: March 31-May 22, 1939 10. The Long Route to China: May 22-July 7, 1939 11. China Pulls Me In: July-September 1939 12. A World Apart: September-December 31, 1939 13. Snowdrifts, Machine Guns, and Prayers: January 1940 14. Learning to Love Peking and Its Forbidden City: February-April 1940 15. Outback of Nowhere–Pingting: May-July 1940 16. Love Breathes Life into the Heart: August-October 1940 17. Leaving China: October 1940-February 1941 18. From Freedom to Infamy: March-December 1941 19. A New Life in a New World: January 1942-May 1945 20. The Letter That Changed Everything: August 1945 21. Dealing with the Outcome: 1945-1952 Epilogue Acknowledgements Index
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