Vienna, 1914.
Part mystery, part war story, part romance.-Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See.
A spectacular success.-Anthony Marra, New York Times Book Review A dream of a novel...
The Winter Soldier brims with improbable narrative pleasures...
These pages crackle with excitement...
From the gilded ballrooms of Imperial Vienna to the frozen forests of the Eastern Front; from hardscrabble operating rooms to battlefields thundering with Cossack cavalry, The Winter Soldier is the story of war and medicine, of family, of finding love in the sweeping tides of history, and finally, of the mistakes we make, and the precious opportunities to atone.
He seems beyond rescue, until Lucius makes a fateful decision that will change the lives of doctor, patient, and nurse forever.
Then one day, an unconscious Soldier is brought in from the snow, his uniform stuffed with strange drawings.
And as the war rages across the Winter landscape, he finds himself falling in love with the woman from whom he must learn a brutal, makeshift medicine.
But Lucius has never lifted a surgeon\'s scalpel.
The other doctors have fled, and only a single, mysterious nurse named Sister Margarete remains.
But when he arrives, at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains, he finds a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus.
Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital.
Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe.
Vienna, 1914
