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A SOLDIER OF THE GREAT WAR by Mark Helprin
Alessandro Giuliani is listening to field guns being tested in Munich in 1914, the year before Italy entered the War against Germany and Austria. Although mostly interested in the visual arts, Alessandro should know about music and beauty of all kinds; as a Professor of Aesthetics, it is his metier. But he learns about it the hard way. When the war breaks out, he is just about to take his doctorate at the University of Bologna. He volunteers for the Italian navy in the hope of avoiding conscription into the trenches, but he ends up in some of the worst fighting of the war nonetheless, facing the Austrians across the river Isonzo.
November 6, 2010
Tags: 800+ Pages, Arabic World, Historical, Literary, love, Music Posted in: Literary, Time Period Fiction, War, World Literature 
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