You Had Such an Unusual Childhood: Essays on Growing Up in the Middle East during World War II BISAC-HIS006090 "I owe to my angel

"I owe to my angel mother

and training necessary to wear the "red shoes

From Kline and Benny to Wes and Winnie with Thatch and Cassie in between

Military fights its wars

and social growth

You Had Such an Unusual Childhood: Essays on Growing Up in the Middle East during World War II BISAC-HIS006090 "I owe to my angelUnlike thousands of other Americans who never leave their neighborhoods until high school, by the time Marilyn Sutton Loos was four years old, she had lived in Palestine, England, and America, and twice crossed the Atlantic and Mediterranean by boat. By the time she was fourteen, she had been evacuated once, lived in the Middle East unscathed through World War II, and added to the list of countries she had lived in or visited: Trans Jordan, Cyprus,