It is late summer in the year of 1916, and Lieutenant Henry, an American ambulance driver, reflects that the year has seen many troops pass by the small Italian village where he is posted, but that things were going well for no one. When cholera passed through the area during winter, nobody was surprised, and there was general relief that only 7,000 soldiers died from it.
The first chapter of Book 1 is short, and gives only a brief description of the surroundings of the area.....
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