A novel based on Doderer's own experience as one of the thousands of Austrian World-War I prisoners-of-war trapped east of the Ural Mountains by the Russian civil War. Pawns of incalculable violence and cruelty -- as well as indulgence -- some will eventually manage to make their way back to Austria.
A novel based on Doderer's own experience as one of the thousands of Austrian World-War I prisoners-of-war trapped east of the Ural Mountains by the Russian civil War. Pawns of incalculable violence and cruelty -- as well as indulgence -- some will eventually manage to make their way back to Austria.