Peace

By Richard Bausch

Subjects: Italy, fiction, Soldiers, Fiction, Fiction, psychological, World War, 1939-1945, Psychology, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, war & military

Description: Three American soldiers set out on the gruelling ascent of a perilous Italian mountainside in the uncertain 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. As snipers lie in wait for them, the men are confronted by agonizing choices ...