Life Between The Lines

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John Izbicki has an exciting story to tell. Berlin-born he lived through the horrors of Nazi persecution & on the day after his eighth birthday he witnessed the Kristallnacht & the smashing of his parents shop windows. On the day Germany invaded Poland & Berlin experienced its first wartime blackout the Izbickis escaped to Holland & from there on to Engl&. The author describes what it feels like to have been a refugee unable to speak or understand a single word of English & how he was persuaded by a kind policeman to change his name from Horst to John. He also leads the reader along the remarkable journey he travelled from school to university the first of his family to enter higher education & through his adventurous time as a commissioned army officer during two years of national service spent in Egypt & Libya. But the best part of his life was yet to come when this young refugee decided to make journalism his profession. The boy who not that many years earlier could speak not a word of English became the distinguished education correspondent of the countrys leading quality newspaper the Daily Telegraph. After eighteen years in that responsible position he was sent to Paris to head the Telegraphs office there. When he left the newspaper to join the Committee of Directors of Polytechnics he played a leading part in transforming the countrys polytechnics into its new universities.