This book is the story of an academic's escape from Czechoslovakia to England at the height of the Cold War. It is a poignant and timely reminder of the hardships and life without basic freedoms endured under Communism. It is also a documentary of the politics, sociology and history of those turbulent years in Europe as they influenced and restrained the life of academics under the yoke of Communism. Ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a younger generation is already beginning to forget what made it imperative for so many individuals to leave their homes in Central Europe, in order to gain freedom and to demonstrate to the Communist authorities, the families and friends they left behind and their new hosts, just how important their escape to Liberty was.