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Author Gaur, Albertine

Title Spring and no flowers : memories of an Austrian childhood / Albertine Gaur
Published Bristol, UK ; Portland, OR : Elm Bank, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (155 pages)
Contents Front Cover; Title; Contents; Chapter One: The Time in the Garden; Chapter Two: Jesuits and Nazis; Chapter Three: 1945 -- Endgame; Back Cover
Summary Albertine Gaur shares with the reader her childhood memories of the period just before, and during, the Second World War in Austria, her homeland. She relives this time of great social and political upheaval, depicting it through the eyes of a childhood as she passes from infancy to adolescence. It is a unique story, full of naïve poignancy, told with a poetic simplicity which helps us have a better understanding of how "events" were seen and interpreted by a young person, struggling with the many diverse problems of "growing up". Incidentally, the book gives us an insight into child psycholog
Subject Gaur, Albertine -- Childhood and youth
SUBJECT Gaur, Albertine fast
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Austria -- Biography
Children -- Austria -- Biography
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Austrian
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY.
Childhood and youth of a person
Children
Kind
SUBJECT Austria -- History -- 1938-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009716
Subject Austria
Österreich
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Personal narratives
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1841509523
9781841509525