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| Original Title: | A Midnight Clear |
| ISBN: | 1557042578 (ISBN13: 9781557042576) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | France,1944 Ardennes,1944(Belgium) |
William Wharton
Paperback | Pages: 256 pages Rating: 4.18 | 1456 Users | 72 Reviews
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| Title | : | A Midnight Clear |
| Author | : | William Wharton |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 256 pages |
| Published | : | June 30th 1999 by William Morrow Paperbacks (first published August 12th 1982) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. War. World War II |
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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," until A Midnight Clear reaches its unexpected climax, one of the most shattering in the literature of war.Rating Based On Books A Midnight Clear
Ratings: 4.18 From 1456 Users | 72 ReviewsColumn Based On Books A Midnight Clear
Spend the Christmas season in the Ardennes Forest in a plundered, isolated chateau with the enemy paying strange (friendly?) visits while you try to escape the war. But for six bright young U.S. soldiers stationed in a lonely outpost to keep an eye on the Germans, World War II, seriously winding down in late 1944, must ultimately keep intruding.1982's "A Midnight Clear" kept William Wharton, himself a World War II veteran, on a nice run after the excellent debut "Birdy" and "Dad." Like "Birdy,"This book is so wonderfully written, and so heartbreaking. It is not exactly satire, but I often think of this book when thinking of Catch-22....I guess its more about the humanity of war (and lack thereof). As a sidenote, this movie (starring Ethan Hawke) does an excellent job of doing this novel justice. I highy recommend it.
"A Midnight Clear" is a modest inquiry into war, youth and extinction. It is also remarkable""Wharton's books could bot be about sadder, crazier people and circumstances, and out of insanity, out of pain, he lifts... spirits, teaching... tenderness.""William Wharton has distilled the essence of degradation, of the utter awfulness of battle, into a terse, 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
A story of a small group of WWII soldiers in the Ardennes in December of 1944. They have an encounter with some German soldiers who seem as tired of the war as they are. The situation remains, as their war experiences have been throughout, FUBAR.This is a small story; you won't gain any new knowledge of the bigger war picture, but it is a very moving story of a group of young men trying to get through a horrific time to make it out to the other side of their lives. Highly recommended.
The movie followed this book EXACTLY. Both were good, but you'd be better off renting the movie and picking up another book off your to-read shelf. Or read the book first and watch the movie when you have some idle time. It was really kind of boring for me to read the story when I already knew all the plot, events and dialogue.
Another war story that I absolutely love. I read this in 8th grade for a book report, basically because it was on our bookshelves, and I was too lazy to go to the library to get something else. It was the first time I had read anything about WW II were the Germans weren't depicted as purely evil. Through the eyes of the teen-aged American soldier, Will, we see that much of the German military was made up of scared young boys and old men, far removed from the Nazi party.A movie based on the book
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