Winter Soldier

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.

subjects: World War, 1914-1918,  Man-woman relationships,  Physicians,  Nurses,  Typhus fever,  Hospitals,  Fiction,  World war, 1914-1918, fiction,  Fiction, historical,  New York Times reviewed,  Fiction, historical, general,  FICTION / Historical / World War I.,  FICTION / Literary,  Historical Fiction

Places: Hungary,  Carpathian Mountains