Peace |
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| Author:
| Bausch, Richard |
| Narrated by:
| Kramer, Michael |
| ISBN: | 978-1-60812-788-7 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2009 |
| Publisher: | Tantor Media, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Pre-recorded MP3 player |
| List Price: | USD $34.99 |
Book Description:
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Italy, near Cassino. The terrible winter of 1944. A dismal icy rain, continuing unabated for days. Guided by a seventy-year-old Italian man in rope-soled shoes, three American soldiers are sent on a reconnaissance mission up the side of a steep hill that they discover, before very long, to be a mountain. And the old man's indeterminate loyalties only add to the terror and confusion that engulf them on that mountain, where they are confronted with the horror of their own time -- and...
More DescriptionItaly, near Cassino. The terrible winter of 1944. A dismal icy rain, continuing unabated for days. Guided by a seventy-year-old Italian man in rope-soled shoes, three American soldiers are sent on a reconnaissance mission up the side of a steep hill that they discover, before very long, to be a mountain. And the old man's indeterminate loyalties only add to the terror and confusion that engulf them on that mountain, where they are confronted with the horror of their own time -- and then set upon by a sniper.Taut and propulsive -- with its spare language, its punishing landscape, and the keenly drawn portraits of the three young soldiers at its center -- Peace is a feat of economy, compression, and imagination, a brutal and unmistakably contemporary meditation on the corrosiveness of violence, the human cost of war, and the redemptive power of mercy.