Read The World of Yesterday

Viktor Frankl in Auschwitz and the psychology he built from it; those with a why can bear any how.

A chess champion and a man who survived the Gestapo by playing games in his head, on a liner to Buenos Aires.

Three generations of the Trotta family and the last decades of the Habsburg empire.

Freud's royal road to the unconscious, from 1899.

Harry Lime in the sewers of occupied Vienna, the zither theme and the Ferris wheel speech.

Orwell fights in the Spanish Civil War, is shot through the throat and sees the revolution betrayed.

Anne Frank in the Amsterdam annex from 1942 to 1944.

Elie Wiesel at fifteen in Auschwitz and Buchenwald; a hundred pages that changed how the Holocaust is written.