num_pages: 323
description: 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 surgeon's 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 with strange drawings. He seems beyond rescue until Lucius makes a fateful decision that will change the lives of doctor patient and nurse forever.From the gilded ballrooms of Imperial Vienna to the frozen forests of the Eastern Front; from hardscrabble operating rooms to battlefields thundering with Cossack cavalry The Winter Soldier is the story of war and medicine of family of finding love in the sweeping tides of history and finally of the mistakes we make and the precious opportunities to atone.
language: English
title: The Winter Soldier
publisher: Little, Brown and Company