Forest of the Hanged: A Novel

A World War I soldier is torn between his duty, his country, and his conscience in this work of "classic war fiction" (Books Monthly).

When the First World War broke out, Apostol Bologa left his home in Romania and joined the Austro-Hungarian army with grand visions of battle, glory, and honor. Instead, the young officer finds himself serving on a near-perfunctory tribunal that sentences deserters and other reprobates to hanging in a small dark forest just behind the Eastern Front.

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