Events › Civic Center Afternoon Book Club: 'The Winter Soldier' by Daniel Mason

The Civic Center Library's Afternoon Book Club will meet in person on Thursday, April 16th from 1:00-2:00 to discuss The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason.

This afternoon book club generally meets on the 3rd Thursday of every month from 1:00-2:00pm. All are welcome to join!

Request a copy of the book online or ask at the Info Desk of the Civic Center Library (or call 415-473-6057) for assistance in placing a hold.

The Winter Soldier (book) or The Winter Soldier (ebook) or The Winter Soldier (eAudiobook) or The Winter Soldier (Audiobook on CD) or The Winter Soldier (large print) by Daniel Mason

Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. 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. The other doctors have fled, and only a single, mysterious nurse named Sister Margarete remains.
But Lucius has never lifted a surgeon's scalpel. 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. Then one day, an unconscious soldier is brought in from the snow, his uniform stuffed with strange drawings. He seems beyond rescue, until Lucius makes a fateful decision that will change the lives of doctor, patient, and nurse forever.

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, this is a story of war and medicine, of family and finding love, and of the mistakes we make and the precious opportunities to atone

- adapted from the publisher

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