The Ice Soldier A Novel Author:Paul Watkins After barely surviving his tour as a mountaineer in the Italian Alps of the Second World War, William Bromley settled down and made a quiet life for himself: teaching history at a London boarding school, reading, a few drinks at the pub on Friday nights. That all ends when a soldier from Williams mountain regiment reappears, calling in a bargain... more » struck during the war. William must return to that perilous ground, reliving the terror of the war and confronting new dangers in a narrative so strong in imagery and detail that the reader can almost feel the gusts of an Alpine blizzard (Library Journal).« less