Publisher's Synopsis
Throughout the Second World War, as alliances are made and betrayed between heads of state, millions of families are trapped in the fallout. Exile to Excellence is the story of the Zeglinski family, captured and displaced from their small Polish farm and told through the eyes of a little boy. Shifting with the winds of war, the boy and his family are imprisoned and shuttled from prison to refugee camp, country to country, as unwanted cargo. Homeless and starved, tested time and again, they discover an aptitude for survival: from the deadly cold of a Siberian gulag, the shocking heat of Africa, the misty greys of England, and, many years later, the four seasons of Canada. This is their journey from Exile to Excellence: one family's search for a life worth living.
