No Fixed Abode

Peter Fraenkel left his broadcasting career in Africa and came to the UK. He pursued a successful career in the BBC World Service, where he became the Controller of European Services.

List of illustrations – vi
Part I: Silesia – 1
1. Roots in the air – 3
2. But we were Germans – 15
3. We became Jews – 39
4. Exodus – 76
Part II: Rhodesia – 101
5. Where you die of hunger doesn’t make much of a difference, does it? – 103
6. Encountering Dimitrov and Macbeth – 130
7. Quit you like men – 142
8. Red thug? – 157
9. Becoming a bwana – 163
10. Out of the saucepan – 176
11. Vultures high and low – 200
12. Vampire men – 217
13. Searchlights in the dark – 235
14. The watch on the Rhine – 238
Index - 241