Peace

Italy, near Cassino. The terrible winter of 1944. A 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 trudge 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.

• Author  -  Richard Bausch
• Series  -  n/a
• Illustrated  -  No
• Age range  -  Adult
• ISBN  -  9781848870857
• Publisher  -  Atlantic
• Date  -  2010
• Format  -  Paperback
• Weight  -  190g
• Size  -  20 x 13 x 1.4 cm
  
• No. of pages  -  172
• RRP  -  £7.99