num_pages: 208
description: "One of the greatest poets and dramatists of our century" (Observer) Schweyk in the Second World War transposes Hasek's 'good soldier' - the soldier who uses his reputation for idiocy to avoid the frontline and whose crowning glory is to be captured by his own army - to the Prague of Hitler and Heydrich.
language: English
title: The Visions of Simone Machard: Schweyk in the Second World War
titlecomplete: The Visions of Simone Machard: Schweyk in the Second World War (Bertolt Brecht Collected Plays, Vol 7 : Part 1)
ratings_count: 9
publisher: Methuen