The Captain's Destiny

The story is about Count Florian von Hohenwart a Captain in the Austro-Hungarian Cavalry World War I and the years after that. His strength and courage help him overcome wounds inflicted by the war and alter him as a person. The leading women in his life are a volunteer in the Red Cross in Vienna and a young lady of society in Maryland. His life is full of happiness and love but also suffering. The novel intermingles real-life persons and events in Vienna Serbia. Innsbruck Washington DC Maryland and Constantinople. It ends with the dawning of the bleak future of Hitler's National Socialism in Germany.