This work features: two sisters, a broken childhood, and a heartbreaking journey. This is the extraordinary true story of surviving the unimaginable...In 1945, seven-year-old Barbie and her sister Eva were trapped, terrified, in wartorn Germany. With their father missing, and hundreds of miles from their mother, news of the approaching army left them confronted with an impossible choice: to face invasion, or to flee on foot. Eva, aged nineteen, was determined to find her mother. For Barbie, twelve years younger, the journey was to be more perilous but, spurred on by her sister's courage and her desperate desire to be reunited with her mother, she joined Eva on a journey no child should ever have to endure. Over three hundred miles across a country ravaged by a terrible war, they encountered unimaginable hardship, extraordinary courage and overwhelming generosity. Against all the odds, they survived. But neither sister came out of the journey unscathed...

芭比‧普若博莱特（Barbie Probert－Wright）1939年出生于德国，后移居英国，现年72岁。作者因参加英国第四频道《理查与朱蒂》栏目的“出版你的真实故事”竞赛而获奖，并获得了与简‧里奇合著出版这本书的机会。

这是一个发生在作者身上的真实故事，第二次世界大战中德国战败，7岁的作者跟随姐姐徒步穿越了大半个德国，她们在火光与炮影下闪躲，并用勇气和毅力谱写了一首为爱奔走的生命练习曲。