- EAN13
- 9781565128774
- Éditeur
- Algonquin Books
- Date de publication
- 05/2001
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
- S'identifier
Livre numérique
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Aide EAN13 : 9781565128774
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Leo Litwak was a university student when he joined the Army to fight in World
War II, "a na've, callow eighteen-year-old son prepared to join other soldier
boys being hauled off to war." In 1944 he found himself in Belgium, in the
middle of the waning European war, a medic trained to save lives but often
powerless to do much more than watch life slip away. It was hard fighting that
took Litwak and his rifle company into the heart of Germany at the close of
the war. But Litwak learned there was more to war than fighting, more to
understand than maps and ammunition.
In the final months of the war, he watched the men in his company tenderly
serve food at a Passover seder for a dozen brutalized Jewish women newly
liberated from slavery. He watched those same men torture and execute
defenseless German soldiers. He fell in love at the Moulin Rouge in a scene
straight out of a Toulouse-Lautrec painting.
The men in his company were dreamers, thieves, friends, killers,
revolutionaries, and heroes. They were the men of their time: sometimes brave,
sometimes compassionate, sometimes cruel, sometimes loving, usually scared.
They were held together by loyalty, only to be scattered by the war's end. The
Medic is the gritty, wise, bighearted, and unflinching account of one man's
quest to find sense in war and its aftermath.
War II, "a na've, callow eighteen-year-old son prepared to join other soldier
boys being hauled off to war." In 1944 he found himself in Belgium, in the
middle of the waning European war, a medic trained to save lives but often
powerless to do much more than watch life slip away. It was hard fighting that
took Litwak and his rifle company into the heart of Germany at the close of
the war. But Litwak learned there was more to war than fighting, more to
understand than maps and ammunition.
In the final months of the war, he watched the men in his company tenderly
serve food at a Passover seder for a dozen brutalized Jewish women newly
liberated from slavery. He watched those same men torture and execute
defenseless German soldiers. He fell in love at the Moulin Rouge in a scene
straight out of a Toulouse-Lautrec painting.
The men in his company were dreamers, thieves, friends, killers,
revolutionaries, and heroes. They were the men of their time: sometimes brave,
sometimes compassionate, sometimes cruel, sometimes loving, usually scared.
They were held together by loyalty, only to be scattered by the war's end. The
Medic is the gritty, wise, bighearted, and unflinching account of one man's
quest to find sense in war and its aftermath.
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