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Summer Before the Dark: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936 by Volker Weidermann
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“My greatest good fortune as an officer would be to ride out against a civilized foe,” he wrote, he, the son of a textile manufacturer from Vienna, to his publisher Kippenberg in Germany. Zweig had very romantic notions about war.
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