Italy, near Cassino, in the terrible winter of 1944. An icy rain, continuing unabated for days. Guided by a seventy-year-old Italian man in rope-soled shoes, three American soldiers are sent on a reconnaissance mission up the side of a steep hill that they discover, before very long, to be a mountain. As they climb, the old man's indeterminate loyalties only add to the terror and confusion that engulf them. Peace is a feat of storytelling from one of America's most acclaimed novelists: a powerful look at the corrosiveness of violence, the human cost of war, and the redemptive power of mercy.
- ISBN10 1408478129
- ISBN13 9781408478127
- Publish Date 5 July 2010 (first published 1 January 2008)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 November 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher AudioGO Limited
- Imprint Chivers
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Language English