Exciting autobiography of Alexander Munzel who grew up in Nazi Germany where he began at an early age to resist their ways, going so far as to ignore a draft order and become a deserter who could be shot. After the war he tried to escape from Germany by becoming a stowaway but was caught. Eventually he emigrated to Canada and worked at hard labor jobs while learning English from sermons on an old radio. He returned to school and became a successful architect and businessman, but throughout his life he always did things the hard way and had many adventures, preferring to challenge himself in order to grow from the experience.