Review: What an amazing and tragic story!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 27, 2012
Based on a little-known and still, as of yet, unsolved medical mystery (encephalitis lethargica), the author has imagined a remarkable and horrifying case of what might have been.Set in the U.S. and France three years into the First World War, the United States has just entered into the action in Europe.  We learn of an unnamed American soldier in the trenches distraught over the sudden cessation of letters from the woman he loves and left back home.Written with incredible vividness, the reader can feel, hear, and smell the battle and, later, the hospital.This short story sent me looking for by this same author.