Teacher, university professor, former Chairman of the Higher Salaries Commission, historian, playwright, publisher. John Dunmore looks back on a life marked by multi-culturalism and multi-lingualism, from his early days on the fringes of the British colony in France to the equally strange world of the Channel Islands under German Occupation. Then after the war, he recounts life in war-torn London and emigration to New Zealand where he was to encoiunter another at first even more mystifying culture and further linguistic peculiarities.