Publisher's Synopsis
World War II is looming, but little Walter lives an idyllic life with his family in the German countryside. As he grows into a young man, like everyone around him he is drawn unwillingly into a war he did not start, but which he has no choice but to fight. Pieced together from kitchen chats over a fifty year long marriage, his wife, author and librarian Ella Benndorf, lovingly weaves a tale of the adventures of her husband who went on to run series of highly successful companies after emigrating to Canada.
