Title: Life in an Austro-Hungarian military prison
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.
Subjects: Physicians, Prisoners, Imprisonment, Biography, Military prisons, Physicians, biography, Prisoners, biography, Slovakia, biography
Places: Košice, Slovakia
People: Albert Škarvan (1869-1926)