Description: Joanie Schirm SIGNED Adventurers Against Their Will 2013 First Edition SC w/GOAUp for bids is this 2013 first edition soft cover version of Adventurers Against Their Will, which was written AND signed by Joanie Schirm and is in GOOD condition (Close to VERY GOOD; NOT an ex-library book; NO reminder marks; NO punch holes).Guarantee of Authenticity (GOA) – We guarantee the authenticity of our SIGNED books and sports memorabilia, all of which have passed a rigorous 20-step authentication process used by forensic autograph analysts. We are so confident in our process that IF one of our SIGNED items fails authentication via Beckett, PSA or CGC, EJay Collectibles will provide you with a full refund plus an additional $10 to help offset the expensive authentication process."The ornately painted Chinese Boxes loomed just out of reach throughout my childhood...but my brother and sister and I paid no attention. The twin, red boxes were part of the familiar-to-the-point-of-being-invisible landscape, like that big tree outside your window with a botanical name you never learn." Sorting through her parents belongings after their deaths, Joanie Holzer Schirm discovered an extraordinary lost world. Hand-written on faded and brittle stationary, stamped by censors and military authorities, and neatly filed in those two lacquered boxes, were 400 letters from 78 correspondents-along with carbon copies of the letters her Czech father had sent to them during World War II. "My father never mentioned that he planned to leave a magnificent gift," Schirm tells us, a "treasure trove" in which "I would come across the very souls of his cousins and friends. Many of the secrets cloistered by those bright and shiny Chinese boxes were ghastly. Lives lost, lives shattered. Friends abandoned. Lovers betrayed. The paths I followed beyond the letters made clear that guilt and grief continued to wound and sometimes cripple those who remained, long after the war was over." And yet the story that they ultimately add up to - a story that is as emotionally absorbing as a novel, as meticulously documented as the important work of history that it is - not one of mere survival, but inspiration.
Price: 27.29 USD
Location: South Lyon, Michigan
End Time: 2025-01-09T21:26:22.000Z
Shipping Cost: 3.99 USD
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Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Signed By: Joanie Schirm
Signed: Yes
Edition: First Edition
Book Title: Adventurers Against Their Will : Extraordinary World War Ii Stories of Survival, Escape, and Connection-Unlike Any Others
Number of Pages: 374 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Pelipress
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2013
Topic: Cultural Heritage, Holocaust, Military / World War II, Historical
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 19.4 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Joanie Holzer Schirm
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback