Citadel of Ice: Life and death in a glacier fortress during World War I Serbian History to New York

to New York

is a story of the raw war emotions expressed by a volunteer engineer

The story explores areas rarely examined: secret service operations

she passed it to me in 1981

the air all round is thick with little grey sand-flies which bite disgustingly

Citadel of Ice: Life and death in a glacier fortress during World War I Serbian History to New YorkDescription By Robie Macaeuley Paperback In 1916 Captain Melchior von Fuchsheim is abruptly transferred from the horror of the trenches to a remote outpost in the Austrian Alps. There he is assigned to build an incredible fortress beneath the massive Ortler Glacier, where the Austrians are locked in a stalemate against the Italians while battling natures cruelest extremes of cold and altitude. But Major Stutz sees Melchior as a charlatan, and a