Peace
By: Richard Bausch
Publisher: Tuskar Rock
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9781848870840
Subjects: Soldiers; Psychology; World War, 1939-1945; Fiction
Description: Three American soldiers set out on the gruelling ascent of a perilous Italian mountainside in the uncertain closing days of the Second World War. Haunted by their sergeant's cold-blooded murder of a young girl, and with only an old man of uncertain loyalties as their guide, they trudge on in a state of barely suppressed terror and confusion. As snipers lie in wait for them, the men are confronted by agonizing choices ...