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 – viPart I: Silesia – 11. Roots in the air – 32. But we were Germans – 153. We became Jews – 394. Exodus – 76Part II: Rhodesia – 1015. Where you die of hunger doesn’t make much of a difference, does it? – 1036. Encountering Dimitrov and Macbeth – 1307. Quit you like men – 1428. Red thug? – 1579. Becoming a bwana – 16310. Out of the saucepan – 17611. Vultures high and low – 20012. Vampire men – 21713. Searchlights in the dark – 23514. The watch on the Rhine – 238Index - 241

Africa Book Centre: "A vivid account of a childhood in a middle-class, non-observant Jewish family in Nazi Germany, forced to emigrate to Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia) in 1939." Jewish Chronicle, 3rd June 2005. Review by Trevor Grundy: 'Not many publishing houses are interested in commissioning works on what we perfunctorily call the worlds' hungriest and least developed continent. I.B.Tauris is thankfully, an exception and its latest African offering, Peter Fraenkel's NO FIXED ABODE is a masterly account of a young man's rites of passage.' 'Well written and painfully honest... a riveting tale.' 'Peter Fraenkel is a born story teller.' - Overseas Pensioner