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Peace

Peace( )
Author: Bausch, Richard
ISBN:978-1-84887-084-0
Publication Date:Oct 2009
Publisher:Atlantic Books, Limited
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $35.00
Book Description:

Italy, near Cassino. The terrible winter of 1944. 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 truge on in a state of barely suppressed terror and confusion. With snipers lying in wait for...
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Book Details
Pages:192
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Psychological
Fiction / Historical / 20Th Century / World War Ii
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):14.1 x 19.8 cm
Author Biography
Bausch, Richard (Author)
Richard Bausch was born in Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1945. After serving in the U.S. Air Force as a survival instructor, he entered George Mason University, from which he received a B.A. in 1974. He then earned an M.F.A. degree from the University of Iowa and worked as a singer and comedian while writing fiction. He became a professor of English at George Mason University in 1980.

His work includes the novels Real Presence, I Don't Care If I Never Get Back, The Last Good Time, Mr. Field's Daughter, and Violence. He has also published two collections of short stories, Spirits and Other Stories and The Fireman's Wife and Other Stories. He was shortlisted for the 2015 Bad S-x in Fiction Award. for his title Before, During, After.

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