A very personal work of autobiography. He does raise the caveat that as it is autobiography, these are his memories and in some cases his dialogue and dates are inaccurate. But less the non-personal dates because they could be checked against records. Heck was born in 1927, and was a farm boy close to a small city in western Germany. He later emigrated to the USA. He rose to considerable height in the Hitler youth and has revealing details of that organization. It touches me as he does now have an idea of how his personal life was directed and ordered by the Nazi state, and what was a strategy for dealing with such a circumstance.. . ( )