The Italian Lesson and Other Hard Luck Stories - Short Story Collection for Book Lovers | Perfect for Reading, Book Clubs & Literary Enthusiasts

How could one family with three children have so many adventures in so many countries? Kim Medders tells the tale with great gusto with input from his mother and father's notes and diaries as they followed the Army, Navy and Air Force families serving abroad. The travelers came to Europe just a few years after the Second World War to teach and manage the education of military dependent children. His parents coped with finding housing and simply living in countries that were still in ruins while the children learned the Amercan way growing up among their agemates speaking a variety of languages. An interesting memoir of a an American civilian family living and working for the military in a fascinating time.