Biography & Autobiography Military
Life in an Austro-Hungarian Military Prison
The Slocak Tostoyan Dr. Albert Skarvan's Story
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2002
- Category
- Military, Historical, Austria & Hungary, Personal Memoirs, Religious
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780815681359
- Publish Date
- Mar 2002
- List Price
- $12.95
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Description
Published here for the first time in English, this memoir of Dr. Albert Skarvan, a Slovak by birth and national consciousness and citizen of the Habsburg monarchy, who derived his pacifist ideas from Tolstoy's works. After refusing to serve out his terms in the Astro-Hungarian army, he was tried and sentences to imprisonment.
About the author
Peter Brock (1920-2006) was a member of the Department of History at the University of Toronto. He is author of The Slovak National Awakening, and co-editor, with H. Gordon Skilling, of The Czech Renascence of the Nineteenth Century.
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