A detailed account of the activities of the author's Quaker Friends Ambulance Unit team just after World War II. It includes their efforts on behalf of "displaced persons" brought to Germany during the war, and also their work to relieve the undernourished German population in the area of the Rhur.

He heard Pastor Martin Niemoeller talk about the Guilt Question to a hostile audience of Westphalian pastors, and visited the War Crimes Trial at Nuremberg. He and his fellow workers were addressed by General Montgomery, and met the saintly pacifist, Pastor Wilhelm Mensching, and his congregation. The letters in this book, which were written by McClelland during those 13 months in Germany, provide a day-by-day account of the relief team's life and work, the conditions they tackled and the people they met.