The winter soldier
By: Daniel Mason
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780316477604
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Man-woman relationships; Physicians; Nurses; Typhus fever; Hospitals; Fiction
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 discovers 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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Maps on endpapers.

"A novel"--Jacket.