In the final days of the Second World War, hugh selwyn mauberley scrawls his desperate account on the walls and ceilings of his ice-cold prison high in the austrian alps. Officers of the liberating army discover his froz...In the final days of the Second World War, hugh selwyn mauberley scrawls his desperate account on the walls and ceilings of his ice-cold prison high in the austrian alps. Officers of the liberating army discover his frozen, disfigured corpse and his astonishing testament - the sordid truth that he alone possessed.