This is the story of a young country boy growing up in Germany during the rise of Hitler's "Third Reich". Written in his own words, beginning with his early schoolage years and on to the pre-war period. He joins the navy with dreams of " seeing the world" and ends up serving on a U-boot and is sunk in the Atlantic. After being captured he is shipped to Canada as a P.O.W. and spends the last of the war years there. The end of the war brings his return to a shattered homeland leading eventually to his immigration to Canada and the beginning of his new life.