the winter soldier  <b>the epic story of war and medicine from the award-winning author of <i>the piano tuner </i>is "a dream of a novel...part mystery, part war story, part romance" (anthony doerr, author of <i>all the light we cannot see</i>). </b><br /><br />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.<br /><br />but lucius has never lifted a surgeon&apos;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.<br /><br />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, <i>the winter soldier</i> 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.<br /><br />"<i>the winter soldier</i> brims with improbable narrative pleasures...these pages crackle with excitement... a spectacular success." —anthony marra, <i>new york times book review</i>