The wolf shall also dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

This is a remarkable book about a remarkable friendship between two remarkable men. As boys, on opposite sides of an invisible fence that inexorably separated them from one another, they lived through a horrendous social conflagration that raced through Europe, destroying millions of lives and threatening to hurtle the world back into the abyss of total darkness out of which civilization had emerged. They did not meet until many years later, but their coming together changed their lives and intertwined them in a way that offered them the opportunity to change the lives of others as well.