After the defeat of Poland, Chaim Herszman was locked in to the Lódz Ghetto. Killing a Nazi guard, Herszman sets out on an unbelievable adventure across enemy lines. In this gripping memoir, his son, John Carr, tells how he avoided grenade and rifle fire on the Russian border, sheltered with a German family in the Rhineland, fell in love in occupied France, was captured on a mountain pass in Spain, got interrogated as a potential Nazi spy in Britain, and eventually fought as part of the British Army.