The Secret of the Empire: A Novel of the Russian Civil War by Heimito von Doderer

The Secret of the Empire: A Novel of the Russian Civil War

Heimito von Doderer with John S. Barrett (Translator)

194 pages first pub 1930 (editions)

fiction emotional reflective medium-paced
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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 wil...

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