An autobiographical memoir of Erich Scharf, who lived under Nazi occupation for a year in Austria. He and his family escaped in 1939, when he was 17, and emigrated to the United States. After the US entered the war, he found himself in the US Army and served in Europe first in the Rangers 1st Battalion, then in the First Special Service Force (a/k/a the Devils Brigade). Because of his skill in speaking German, he became an interrogator of German prisoners.