"Stanislav Liska's story deserves to be told: thankfully, Vaclava Jandeckova and Michal Kocian have done so in this gripping graphic novel. Liska, a guard stationed at the Czech-German border in 1948, became embroiled in the new Czechoslovak communist government's plan to ensnare Czechs trying to flee. As we learn in these pages, Liska, like so many others at that time, has difficult choices to make. The authors allow us to be present alongside Liska as he makes his decisions." - Prof. Stephen Norris, Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, Miami University