Spring and no flowers : memories of an Austrian childhood / Albertine Gaur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaur, Albertine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child psychology.

Austria--Biography.

Austria.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol ; Portland, OR : Intellect Books, 2006.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

Front Cover; Title; Contents; Chapter One: The Time in the Garden; Chapter Two: Jesuits and Nazis; Chapter Three: 1945 - Endgame; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786610477395

9781280477393

1280477393

9781841509525

1841509523

OCLC:

62711602