An old man remembers his war years in a touching and sensitive account of surviving aerial bombing in his hometown, his role as a reserve officer with the Yugoslav King's Guard, and years of prison camp in Germany. This philosophy teacher and oil painter is surrounded by starvation and the terror of Nazi, then Allied bombings, with his fellow prisoners. His intellect probes men's animal nature with a Malapartesque edge, and what makes them lose their humanity.
Ñ Maps, drawings, photos, POW correspondence, notes, chronologies, bibliography, indexes. (2nd ed., with revised and enlarged notes, 2023.)