This book offers a social and historical reading of fiction, creative nonfiction, and memoirs written by Austrian women during WWII, as well as writing by those descended from Austrian women
living during the WWII period. Major themes include the older woman in postwar Austrian novels, the Kindertransport from Austria to Britain as recounted in memoirs, imagination and identity in
the memoirs of exiled Austrian Jewish women in Shanghai during WWII, and writing about war for children today. The book's readership includes those in women's history and literature, Holocaust
studies, and Austrian studies. Kirsten Krick-Aigner is Associate Professor of German at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC. Annotation �穢2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
