This fascinating book is an attempt to sway political opinion when Europe was in flux. At the end of the First World War, one provision of the peace treaty Austria signed was to hand the South Tyrol over to Italy. At the end of the Second World War, the Tyrol was the only part of Austria to establish a provisional government as the Nazi administration collapsed. This book, published in Innsbruck in 1946, is a collection of words and photographs aimed at trying to unravel the post First World War settlement and get the South Tyrol back. It didn't work. Only now, with both Italy and Austria members of the European Union and free movement and rights of settlement across Schengen zone borders put in place has the relevance of this matter declined in popular imagination. ( )