The author calls on his old show-business friends to recount their stories of how shows were put on in the various theatres of war and in the prisoner of war camps of Eastern Europe and the Far East. They include Ian Carmichael, Charlie Chester, Michael Denison, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, Frankie Howerd, Janet Brown, Faith Brook, Jimmy Perry, Kenneth Williams, Stanley Baxter, Tony Hancock, Peter Sellers, Dick Emery, David Lodge, Donald Hewitt, Jon Pertwee, Arthur Lane and Russ Conway.