For more than 50 years we have been free of world wars and all the attendant horrors that they bring. But lest we should forget the real meaning of loss, hardship, deprivation, separation etc, this book reminds us of what some had to endure through those long years of enemy action. Many are the recorded facts of courage and fortitude, that it may appear incredible how some of these people survived what must have seemed at the time, impossible conditions.