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The Winter Soldier
“Part mystery, part war story, part romance, The Winter Soldier is a dream of a novel” Anthony Doerr, author of `All The Light We Cannot See`From the bestselling author of The Piano Tuner, comes Daniel Mason`s `The Winter Soldier`, a story of love and medicine through the devastation of the First World War.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, only to find himself posted to a remote field-hospital ravaged by typhus. Supplies have all but run out, the other doctors have fled, and only a single nurse remains, 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 course of his life.From the gilded ballrooms of Imperial Vienna to the frozen forests of the Eastern Front, `The Winter Soldier` is the story of finding love in the sweeping tides of history, and of the mistakes we make and the precious opportunities to atone.