Peace
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781410411709 (1410411702)
Publish date: December 1st 2008
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Pages no: 223
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
War,
Military,
World War II
Though I keep saying I'm done with the European theater of World War II—and I do a fair job keeping my distance—I am clearly not entirely done. A favorite author writes a phenomenal book about the subject. A story about something unrelated suddenly “goes there.” It's unavoidable. Mix my desire to re...
As Michael Hedges might say, “War is a force that gives us meaning.” Richard Bausch’s Peace offers human character assaulted and revealed by the horror of war. In bleak 1944 Italy, after the Cassino invasion by the Allies, a reconnaissance company stops a farmer’s cart. A German soldier and whore j...
Beautifully written, evocative and thoughtful piece of work.
Wow! I read this entire book in one sitting with just a couple of pee breaks and a banana snack! Sometimes the books with the fewest words are the most profound.
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