A Heroic Tale, Told Simply

“She belonged to neither the hunters nor the hunted, the persecutors nor the persecuted. The ugly scenes which followed Hitler’s triumphant entry into Austria need have been none of her concern.” – Anna Freud

But they were Muriel Gardiner’s concern, and they had to be, as this book makes clear. Written simply, without flourish or glitter, it is a record of how a privileged young American woman, in Vienna for psychoanalytic sessions with Dr. Ruth Mack Bruns...