Home alone in America
Subtitle: letters exchanged by a young German in the U.S. and his family in Berlin from 1946 to 1955
By: edited by Elizabeth Arnswald Dost.
Contributors: Dost, Elizabeth Arnswald.
Publisher: Heritage Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Westminster, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Dost, Helmut, -- 1930-1994 -- Correspondence; Doster family -- Correspondence; German Americans -- Correspondence; Berlin (Germany : West) -- Social conditions
Genres: Correspondence.
Description: "The extraordinary collection of letters exchanged during those years by Helmut Dost in the United States and his family in Berlin tell the suspense-filled story of a young man's unanticipated struggles and challenges in the country of his birth. At the same time, they give us intriguing glimpses of life in beleaguered West Berlin during the tense days of the Cold War"--Cover, p. 4.