Midnight Clear, A

a Novel

By: William Wharton

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Paperback | 2 June 2020

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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. 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," until A Midnight Clear reaches its unexpected climax, one of the most shattering in the literature of war. Reviews "William Wharton has distilled the essence of degradation, of the utter awfulness of battle, into a tense, poetic statement. In its power to surprise and to haunt us, it ranks among the best of our celebrated war stories. I'd put it on the same shelf with Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, it has mythic quality. " Chicago Tribune "It is a fine book, sad and witty, even profound. " San Francisco Chronicle "There are surprisingly few 'classic' novels of World War II, A Midnight Clear joins the best. " Eliot Fremont-Smith, The Village Voice

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