Winter Soldier

     Holding a book with a cover and real paper pages is a gift. It's the best way to read. Given the necessity of social isolation during the pandemic Kindle, linked to a lending library, is also a great gift. Having finished Pachinko and needing another book I turned to The Washington Post's Weekly Book Club which recommended The Winter Soldier, Daniel Mason.  Hennepin County Library had it in stock so to my Kindle it came.
     Lucius is a medical student pressed into medical service by Austria near the front lines during WW I. It's a rich novel which explores Lucius experience of war, penance, family, chance relationships, historical medical practice and in an important period in history. Significant to the book is the puzzle over what we now know as PTSD.  Author Daniel Mason is a physician and that informs the major emphasis on the the practice of medicine in the book. It's a gripping story but very graphic in parts. Decisions lead to haunting consequences.
     Yes, I highly recommend it.

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Al

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