How does a young Viennese man end up in Indochina in 1941? What drives him to fight for Vietnam's independence? And how does he manage to become a colonel in Ho Chi Minh's army? Ernst Frey, a fighter and seeker throughout his life, witnessed the murderous 1930s in Austria. Stigmatized as both a Jew and a communist, he was imprisoned several times and ultimately fled from the Nazis in 1938. In Paris, he enlisted in the Foreign Legion and, through various twists, made his way to Vietnam, where he joined the Viét Minh and fought for the country's independence. Upon its first release in 2001, the highly unusual life story of Ernst Frey, which is also a "piece of form-conscious prose," garnered great interest. By popular demand, this unique title is now finally being made available again in a new edition.