A Bullet Saved My Life is the remarkable story of Bob Peters, one of the last surviving veterans of the Spanish Civil War. Bob left his native Wales to go to Canada during the Depression. He found work on the Great Lakes and also became interested in politics. Early in 1937 he sailed from New York to France and was smuggled into Spain where he joined the British Battalion of the XV International Brigade. He went into battle against Franco's armies at Brunete and was shot in the back while crawling through a trench. The bullet was too near his spine to be removed. Bob was transferred from the frontline to work as a motorcycle dispatch rider. Incredibly, the bullet moved with the jarring impact of the rough roads and doctors could eventually cut it out. As casualties were so high in his former unit, Bob says that if he had stayed on the battlefield he would have been killed.