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When World War I erupts in 1914, twenty‑two‑year‑old Lucius, a medical student from Vienna, is thrilled by tales of battlefield surgery. He enlists, expecting a position in a well‑organized front‑line hospital, but arrives at a commandeered church in a remote Carpathian valley instead. The once‑functioning facility has fallen into ruin due to a typhus outbreak. The other doctors have fled, leaving only a solitary nurse, Sister Margarete, to tend the wounded. Lucius, still inexperienced with a scalpel, must quickly learn the harsh, improvisational medical techniques required to save lives in this harsh winter outpost. As he serves patients caught by the snow, he develops a bond with Sister Margarete and is faced with the desperate choice of practicing medicine under impossible conditions and confronting the human cost of war.
First publish date: 2018
Genre: Historical Fiction/20th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: Daniel Mason
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