Table of Contents
Author's Note ix
Preface: The Maginot Line of Memory xi
Prologue 1
Part 1 Hidden in Plain Sight
Chapter 1 Walking My Father's Labyrinth 7
Chapter 2 Bombs, Bullets, and Lies 10
Chapter 3 Vichy, Lyon, and the Flag of Rags 21
Chapter 4 No Exit: Marseille, Fascist Spain, and the Nightmare Ocean Crossing 28
Chapter 5 Unraveling the Chaos: A Kid at the Dwight School 34
Part 2 The Long Road to Ritchie
Chapter 6 Drafted 45
Chapter 7 The Ritchie Boy Takes On the Pentagon 87
Part 3 Return from Exile
Chapter 8 Coup de Grâce: Vetting War Criminals from Mussolini's Masses 109
Chapter 9 It Is Your Moral Duty: DPs Among the Ruins in Austria and Germany 145
Chapter 10 "I Found Your Gold Bally Shoes" 234
Chapter 11 The Key to the Wine Cellar 253
Chapter 12 Details Are Confusing, and Freedom Is Just Another Word 269
Appendix: To the Editors of The New Yorker: A Letter from Austria 275
Acknowledgments 279
Notes 281