Join a German family in the first of five volumes as they navigate their dramatic story of searching for a new home in the Ukraine of the Russian Empire, through years of hardship, flight, and displacement during World War I, to the expropriation in post-war Russia, which has become their homeland, shaped by civil war. The events recounted in this book are based on actual occurrences and true events. Only the names of most of the individuals involved have been changed by the author.