A Meal in Winter : A Novel of World War II (Hardcover)

from atticusfinch1048

A Meal in Winter – Strong and Simple This novella is probably one of the most powerful short stories that I have read in a long time. The setting is somewhere I know well, in South East Poland and was happening early on in the German occupation of the country. When German soldiers were rounding u...

from RidgewayGirl

Early one morning, in the dead of a Polish winter, in the middle of WWII, three German soldiers set out to hunt for Jews in hiding in the woods. They requested the task, having reached the point of being unable to continue with the shootings. They set out, on that cold morning and walk for some t...

from Beamis12

3.5 A short and simply written book that has a very complex moral situation. Three German soldiers in the woods, find a Jewish young man and take him prisoner. They find a house and have a most unusual dinner, a dinner a Pole soon joins, filled with hate for the Jewish man. That's the gist of it ...

from 3argonauta

Short but good read. So much is left to the imagination.

from jan.fleming

A miniature masterpiece, this is the sparse, stunning story of three soldiers who share a meal with their Jewish prisoner and face a chilling choice.One morning, in the dead of winter, three German soldiers are dispatched into the frozen Polish countryside. They have been charged by their command...