Standard

November 1918, the last week of the First World War and the existence of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In just a few days, a handful of officers remains from the famous Dragoon regiment, with the risk of home from Belgrade home to Austria. The 19-year-old ensign, in addition to his own life, must save the standard of his regiment and a girl, met three days ago and hit him stronger than all the enemy troops combined. But the most difficult thing, having reached his native vein, is found in the post -war life, in the new country and in the new world.

Alexander Lernet-Kholenia (1897-1976)-an outstanding Austrian writer and playwright, a participant in the events described in the novel, the winner of the Prize of Henry Kleist (1926) and the Big State Prize (1961), the president of the Austrian Pen-Club. The novel "Standard" (1934), like the rest of the writer’s books, was banned in the Third Reich, but enjoyed great success before and after the Nazi decade