In recent years, a lot of books, films and TV series set at Auschwitz have been released.The Zone of Interest‘s a bit different, focusing on the life of camp commandant Rudolf Hoss and his family, in the “zone of interest” around the main camp. Not very much actually happens, but ...
The four-thirty train from Victoria on which Cecil Roberts’ passenger depart is headed for Austria and then on, in separate collections of cars to Rome, Athens, Budapest, and Istanbul, and his novel would have been a perfect companion for this trip. It’s a classic Ship of Fools or Gran...
The underlying cause of the war was the 28 June 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, by Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo. The end-result of the murder set off a diplomatic crisis; within weeks the war beg...
This month, one of my favourite authors, Mary Stewart, would have been 100 years old and to mark the occasion I decided it was time to pick up one of the few remaining books of hers that I still hadn’t read. I choseAirs Above the Ground, a suspense novel set in Austria which was...
produced a tract comparing the European revolts of 1848 with the peasant rebellions of 1525 in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, which you can read here (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1850/peasant-war-germany/index.htm). You might need to work through the usual nonsensical ...
The Niwiska Klub Records and War and Resistance in the Wilderness, a historical novel set in Niwiska, “What’s this dusty old book on the shelf of your closet? Dan Corning said as he brought the book to his 95-year old mother-in-law. “What’s ‘The Niwiska Klub’?” Loretta Fry...
Cabarrus History, Book 1: “One day in 1906, while still in the arm, he walked out of Russia and crossed into Austria, with a ‘samovar (a Russian urn with a spigot made for boiling water for tea) under his arm and one change of clothing.’ He could speak French and German but ...
Austria's Elfriede Jelinek is the ninth and the first 44 1996. The Stockholm-based Swedish Academy 45 last Thursday that Jelinek won this year's Nobel Prize in literature. She is 46 for her socially critical (批判的) novels and plays. Jelinek 57 started her literary 47 in 1967. She ...
implicated in Hubert’s murder – at a time when everyone else is trying to get out of Austria. However, I can forgive this because the Vienna sections of the book are so well done, perfectly illustrating the mood in Austria during that period which followed the annexation by Nazi Germany....
As Nazi sentiment and anti-Semitism began to spread across Europe, Jews sought safe havens outside of the continent. One such journey was the voyage of the SSAtlantic. This ship set sail in October of 1940, taking residents of Austria and Germany to Palestine. ...