Author: Richard Bausch Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Award winners, War/Military Culture: Italy
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ISBNs: 9780307268334 9780307388582 0307268330 0307388581 |
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Italy, near Cassino, in the terrible winter of 1944. An icy rain, continuing unabated for days. Guided by a seventy-year-old Italian man in rope-soled shoes, three American soldiers are sent on a reconnaissance mission up the side of a steep hill that they discover, before very long, to be a mountain. As they climb, the old man's indeterminate loyalties only add to the terror and confusion that engulf them. Peace is a feat of storytelling from one of America's most acclaimed novelists: a powerful look at the corrosiveness of violence, the human cost of war, and the redemptive power of mercy. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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