Dimensions
130 x 200 x 20mm
In 2008 a faded typescript was discovered in a suitcase in
the attic of the Freud Museum in London. It was a satirical
novel about the Second World War written by Sigmund Freud's
son Martin, but never published and apparently forgotten
about. Freud and his family had escaped from Nazi-occupied
Vienna in 1938, narrowly avoiding losing everything,
including their lives. Arriving in England, Martin, formerly
an eminent lawyer in Vienna, was interned as an 'enemy
alien,' and later ran a shop near the British Museum (his
son, Walter, fought for the British in the SOE during the
war). It is known that Martin wrote numerous poems and
pieces of fiction, but the only books he ever published were
a fictionalised account of his experiences during the First
World War,
