Life in an Austro-Hungarian Military Prison
Subtitle: The Slovak Tolstoyan Dr. Albert Skarvan's Story
Contributors: Peter Brock (Editor); Slovak (Translator)
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: February 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 62
ISBN-13: 9780815681359
Subjects: Biography: historical; European history: from c 1900 -; Other warfare & defence issues; 20th century; Medical - Physicians; Central Europe - History; Prisoners Of War; Social Science; Biography / Autobiography; Sociology; Austria; Hungary; Historical - General; Criminology; Europe - General
Description: "Albert Skarvan's Memoirs of an Army Doctor reveal the mindset around a century ago of a Tolstoyan antimilitarist, who is regarded today as a figure of some importance in Slovak literature. They also give a unique picture of conditions prevailing in military prisons of the Habsburg Empire at the end of the nineteenth century.

In 1895 Skarvan had refused on grounds of conscience to complete his term of conscript service in the Austro-Hungarian army and, as a result, he was sentenced to a term of imprisonment in a military jail. His account of his incarceration has been translated from the Slovak by Professor Peter Brock."--BOOK JACKET.