Mars in the constellation Aries

On August 15, 1939, the Austrian aristocrat Count Valmoden was called up for military training. It is on these days that he is overtaken by great love, which is why the army routine and the need to live in a garrison town for a month turn into a serious inconvenience. The count promises his beloved to return to Vienna on September 16 - on the very first day after the end of the service, but the world war and send his units on a campaign to Poland, all plans are mixed.
But even the death of Valmoden from a random bomb does not become a sufficient obstacle for him to not meet with his beloved exactly at the appointed hour.
Alexander Lernet Kholenia (1897-1976)-an outstanding Austrian writer and playwright, a direct participant in the events described in the novel. Laureate of the Prize Henry Kleist (1926) "Mars in the constellation Aries" (1940-41, 1947), the most significant novel of the writer, was prohibited by the Ministry of Propaganda of the Third Reich immediately after the first publication