num_pages: 723
description: A Roman student is torn from his carefree life when World War I breaks out, and fifty years later, recounts the triumphs and tragedies of his existence to an illiterate factory worker.
language: English
title: A Soldier of the Great War
titlecomplete: A Soldier of the Great War
characters: Alessandro Giuliani
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, World War I, Italy, Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 7362
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Washington State Book Award
publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers