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Biography & Autobiography Military

Life in an Austro-Hungarian Military Prison

The Slocak Tostoyan Dr. Albert Skarvan's Story

translated by Peter Brock

Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2002
Category
Military, Historical, Austria & Hungary, Personal Memoirs, Religious
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780815681359
    Publish Date
    Mar 2002
    List Price
    $12.95

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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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