num_pages: 288
description: After finding a box containing letters her father had written to her mother during World War II, as well as a Japanese flag bearing a profound inscription, the author embarks on a mission to discover what happened to her father and the men of his Twenty-fifth Infantry, which takes her all the way to Japan to return the flag to its rightful owner, where she forms a bond with the surviving family and ultimately discovers a side of her father she never knew. Reprint.
language: English
title: The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War
titlecomplete: The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War
genres: Historical, History, World War II, Japan, Biography Memoir, War, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 175
publisher: Plume