The Dark Dad: War and trauma ― a daughter's tale J.W. Wray Pretentiousness: Why it Matters unpacks

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The Dark Dad: War and trauma ― a daughter's tale J.W. Wray Pretentiousness: Why it Matters unpacksArt 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