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The book contains a lot of new information and photos including:
- five never-before-published photos of Walt in his Red Cross uniform
- the contents of a scrapbook of art Walt sent home to a school chum
- two photographs of famous Parisian landmarks snapped by Walt himself
- five postcards sent to friends back home
- the contents of dozens of letters exchanged between Walt and his former canteen boss following the war, when they renewed their friendship
- extensive use of journalist Pete Martin's landmark 1956 interview with Walt Disney - "hear" Walt speak about his many overseas adventures including the "charge of the cordwood brigade," the court martial that almost happened, doctored souvenirs, the picnic with a famous general's son, and much, much, more.
Join Walt as he celebrates his seventeenth birthday in a small French bistro, and learn about this exciting and formative time in his life that closed his childhood and set him on the path to the man he would become.
Walt stands atop an abandoned British tank overlooking the Hindenburg Line, a defensive barrier built by the Germans that ran across northeastern France. This image and many other never-before-published photos and research items make their debut in the book.
