Czech Mate: A Life in Progress: As Told to Joe King

''The German army moved into the city [Paris] at seven the next morning; the Hechts had a margin of escape of only 19 hours!''

This book speaks of life as it once was in Bratislava, and its Jewish community, describes the Hecht family's trials and tribulations in escaping the horrors of the Nazis, their struggles in finding a new home, and their successful integration into the Canadian Jewish community from Bratislava, to Paris, to Nice, to Lisbon to Montreal after a harrowing three-year odyssey in war-stricken Europe.