The Winter Soldier - Daniel Mason
Category: Historical Fiction
Tags: Historical Fiction, Adults, Literature
Publisher: Hachette Book Group USADate: September 2018 Duration: 11 hours 30 minutes, Summary: A dream of a novel Part mystery, part war story, part romance. Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See NATIONAL BESTSELLER, Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives, at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains, he finds a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus. The other doctors have fled, and only a single, mysterious nurse named Sister Margarete remains., But Lucius has never lifted a surgeons scalpel. And as the war rages across the winter landscape, he finds himself falling in love with the woman from whom he must learn a brutal, makeshift medicine. Then one day, an unconscious soldier is brought in from the snow, his uniform stuffed w
