When WWII started, Eugeniusz – then 19 – was an Officer Cadet who despite such young age became a Catering Officer on the front line during the military campaign against the Nazi aggressor. But Wehrmacht was much stronger than the Polish Army and the September 1939 campaign quickly ended. Eugeniusz tried to escape to Romania, but got caught and became a POW. Luckily, he was able to escape soon after that – by jumping off the train that was carrying the POWs to Germany. But before that he had a funny adventure with one of the German soldiers when he exchanged his elegant gun for few gulps of vodka. He describes that in Chapter 8. Less