The Transylvanian writer's worldwide success in 1928 was no accident: Hasek's Svejkje and Markovits's Garrison are two defining World War novels of the Central European literature of the 20s. Markovits, who was a Russian prisoner of war, also fought in the Russian Civil War and even traveled with Svejk on the "golden train", which transported the tsar's treasures on the orders of the Bolsheviks. The excellent POW novel, the "collective report novel", was published in 14 languages ​​that year, but has now been forgotten...