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“... England has yielded up, for the one, a success story and, for the other, a saga of victimisation. Gregor vonRezzori, however, does not have to collate the documents, and mould the brute matter of circumstances to suit his theme. Memoirs of an Anti-Semite, his ‘novel in five stories’, springs from the most vivid ...”

“... Gregor vonRezzori was born on his mother’s estate in Bukovina in 1914. Bukovina was Austrian in those days, Romanian after the First World War, and Russian after the second. The Rezzoris were minor Austrian gentry administering the outposts of empire, more like the British in India than like the magnates who entertained Patrick Leigh-Fermor when he passed through the Balkans ...”

“... lifting and lowering his right arm while his left hand ‘held tight to his belt buckle’, as Gregor vonRezzori wrote in Cain, ‘as though he were afraid that his pants might fall down’. This being the age of balcony politics, Hitler appeared on one to announce the Anschluss, the ‘joining’ of Austria to the ...”