A Midnight Clear

By: William Wharton

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Paperback | 20 June 2013

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224 Pages

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Set in the Ardennes Forest on Christmas Eve 1944, Sergeant Will Knott and five other GIs are ordered close to the German lines to establish an observation post in an abandoned chateau. Here they play at being soldiers in what seems to be complete isolation. That is, until the Germans begin revealing their whereabouts and leaving signs of their presence: a scarecrow, equipment the squad had dropped on a retreat from a reconnaissance mission and, strangest of all, a small fir tree hung with fruit, candles, and cardboard stars. Suddenly, Knott and the others must unravel these mysteries, learning as they do about themselves, about one another, and about the "enemy," untilA Midnight Clear reaches its unexpected climax, one of the most shattering in the literature of war.

Industry Reviews

` Remarkable' NEW YORK TIMES

`There are surprisingly few `classic' novels of World War II, A Midnight Clear joins the best.' VILLAGE VOICE

`Sad and witty, even profound.; SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

`It has mythic quality.' CHICAGO TRIBUNE

`Belonging to a class entirely of its own' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

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