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Fantastic book depicting the reality of war
Excellent! Great prose, well-drawn characters and with an ear for great dialogue, Bausch's novella easily matches Hemingway in his depiction of soldiers fa... READ MORE
A Thought-Provoking Read
Soldiers Marson, Asch and Joyner are detailed to ascend a mountain accompanied by an Old Italian farmer as guide in failing light and worsening weather. Ov... READ MORE
Fantastic book depicting the reality of war
Excellent! Great prose, well-drawn characters and with an ear for great dialogue, Bausch's novella easily matches Hemingway in his depiction of soldiers fa... READ MORE
Thought-provoking
Soldiers Marson, Asch and Joyner are detailed to ascend a mountain accompanied by an Old Italian farmer as guide in failing light and worsening weather. Ov... READ MORE
Thought-provoking
Soldiers Marson, Asch and Joyner are detailed to ascend a mountain accompanied by an Old Italian farmer as guide in failing light and worsening weather. Ov... READ MORE
Synopsis
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.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
- ISBN: 9781848870840
- Number of pages: 192
- Dimensions: 198 x 141 x 19 mm
- Weight: 298g