The Officers' Ward
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 1569473072 / Publisher: Soho Press, November 2002
It is autumn 1914, the first days of the Great War. At a hospital on the outskirts of Paris in a room without mirrors, a young lieutenant lies scarred, his face forever disfigured by a German shell. But he is not alone. Between bouts of surgery, he discovers that hope, humanity and humor can endure even there in the officers' ward.
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After being horribly disfigured during the war and sent to a hospital on the outskirts of Paris, Officer Adrien F. forms a special bond with the other soldiers dealing with pain and reconstructive surgery, and when a gorgeous woman joins their group, he learns that hope, humor, and humanity can exist in even the darkest of hours. Reprint.
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