Luka and Dragan followed the Austrians into the cornfield and held their fire until the last second. There were twelve of them, exhausted, drawn-looking older men in grey uniforms staggering and stumbling under the weight of their packs, cursing and spluttering in some foreign tongue which Dragan had said was German but Luka did not... Continue Reading →
Short Fiction – BLOOD LAND
The soldiers of the march battalion, deployed to a small village near the Russian border, had long warned one another – if at night you hear a girl’s voice, frail and slender, call out in German, innocently asking Wer da? from the darkness, then do your best not to reply. She may ask once and... Continue Reading →
Habsburgs in Beijing – What Austria Can Teach Us About China, Taiwan, And Nationalism
“But the real reason for the whole thing was that it was too much effort not to have a war.” – Captain Edmund Blackadder, Blackadder Goes Forth Imagine two states. One is a vast patchwork of national and regional ethnicities and cultures, all kept together by a universal ideology of supernational loyalty to a bureaucratic... Continue Reading →