About the book: 2008 / Richard Armstrong is a Jew, the son of an illiterate peasant, who fled Eastern Europe, devastated by World War II. Keith Townsend is an Australian, the son of a millionaire, for whom the war was just news in the newspaper. One ends up in Berlin, where his ingenuity and acumen help him head the newspaper, the other, after the death of his father, inherits his business in Australia. What, at first glance, could unite these people? The confrontation between two players competing all their lives for the right to individually manage a newspaper empire .And only one of them must win.