Peace
Bausch, Richard, 1945-2009
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Italy, near Cassino. The terrible winter of 1944. Dismal icy rain falls, unabated, for days. Three American soldiers set out on the gruelling ascent of a perilous Italian mountainside in the murky 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 truge on in a state of barely suppressed terror and confusion. With snipers lying in wait for them, the men are confronted by agonizing moral choices... Taut and propulsive - Peace is a feat of economy, compression, and imagination, a tough and unmistakably contemporary meditation on the corrosiveness of violence, the human cost of war, and the redemptive power of mercy.
Main title:
Peace / Richard Bausch.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Tuskar Rock, 2009.
Collation:
192 pages ; 20 cm.
ISBN:
9781848870840 (hardback)
Language:
English
BRN:
1389547