A memoir of a life begun in pre-World War II Germany, through the horrors of the war and the air raids as lived by a young girl and then teenager during that awful, momentous time. Details of life during World War II in Germany are highlighted, followed by a move to the United States in the 50s to start another chapter as an expatriate wife and mother in the town of Amherst, Massachusetts. Readers will see the impact of war upon a young girl and then young woman in the direct heart of the European conflict, in its streses upon family life and survival.