Han-man

As a teenage frontline medic in the German Air Force and as a prisoner of war this book of recollections by Han-man will take the reader back to the chaotic times of Germany's total defeat at the end of the Second World War. It is also a book full of fascinating and sometimes amusing anecdotes and revelations. The story begins early in 1945 with the firebombing of his hometown Magdeburg. Afterwards he was sent at the age of 18 to the front lines to assist a surgeon who never showed up. Wounded and captured by Soviet military forces he was forced into walking endless exhausting miles leading to the gates of Auschwitz to become a starving prisoner of war. Released Han-man returned home only to find himself a prisoner again this time confined by what Winston Churchill called The Iron Curtain in the then Soviet occupied regions of East Germany.