This book is a co-production of my father's memoirs, which I translated, covering his life from before World War I through World War II and after, as well as of my own early childhood experiences during and after World War II. The book starts in our homeland in the Czech Republic and ends about 1952 in West Germany. My father had to leave a rather comfortable life and join the German Army in 1939. He recounts his years with the military in great detail. Good luck and survival skills helped him during the war and as a POW. He was able to live through hopeless situations and sometimes turned them into heartwarming events.