Die Rote Wand

Death comes from a different direction each time. Like a stone wall that God has driven into the earth as a natural boundary between Northern and Southern Europe, the mountains behind Sexten rise into the sky. Here, in 1915, lies the border between Austria-Hungary and Italy. A front that will become the scene of a bitter trench warfare during World War I. Fighting takes place on rock ledges, peaks, on skis, with daggers, carbines, and hand grenades. Man against man, small units try to secure the heights. In all these skirmishes, a girl is present in the red wall, having followed her father into the mountain war. David Pfeifer tells her story and the story of the Dolomite War in an impressive novel.