The Dark Dad: War and trauma ― a daughter's tale J.W. Wray But Johnson was also a

But Johnson was also a man of deep paradoxes: he was a Nazi sympathizer

most of which have never been published in book form

There they took 26 hostages

It is an antidote to boredom

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The Dark Dad: War and trauma ― a daughter's tale J.W. Wray But Johnson was also aArt historian Mary Kisler grew up in the early 1950s with a father who talked little, whose affection she cherished and whose anger she feared. She later came to understand the trauma that lay behind his dark moods: rejection and violence in his childhood and the brutal experience of being a prisoner of war in Italy and then Germany from late 1941 to 1945. In this affecting memoir, she traces back through her father s life and war record, discovering