What of Germany's children? Are they beyond the possibility of re-education to a more reasonable, more humane way of life? The story of Max Eckermann is one answer.

As far as Max knows he is a German boy, brought up to believe in the Nazi way of life. "Little Hitler," the sailors call him when he is picked up by a British ship in the North Sea. And he lives up to his nickname, but Fate has something else in store for Max. Once in England, he finds himself in the midst of a kindly intelligent family who believe him to be their long-lost brother. Baffled by the new way of life, bewildered by the sudden upheaval of his world, Max holds fast to what he believes true with stubborn courage.

With skill and sympathy, the author unfolds an absorbing story against the background of England and its people at war. Here is no swift turnabout of character. Slowly the differences in the two ways of life become apparent to Max. Patiently, and with understanding and humor, inspired by Dym, an older brother, the Ingleford family help Max over his difficult time.

Enemy Brothers is in the best tradition of civilized English novel writing. The author has something to say, which needs saying in these troubled times, but first of all she tells a good story through characters that really live. Frankly, intelligently, and wholly without bitterness, Enemy Brothers gives the complete illumination of a free people versus a people chained by dogma. Both are judged by the children they produce. In this fine story, sympathetically told, we have a book for which to rejoice.

From the dust jacket