Frederic received orders to take two ambulances and three other drivers to the war front up the river Plava. They were instructed to acquire as many wounded as possible and deliver them to hospitals. Once they arrived at their destination they were ordered to remain even longer because a military air strike was to take place. All the drivers were to stay in a dugout by the riverbank while the strike was going on. The drivers were in the dugout eating and drinking wine while gun fire and bomb s

A very tragic incident for the mother, especially since the baby was still born, a large baby boy, but deceased. After the birth Catherine had complications, she too died soon after. Which is what Frederick had feared even before her giving birth because of the extreme pain she had been in. An incredibly tragic ending to a book that could have blossomed from a war set love story to the beautiful life and future and family of Frederick and Catherine.

hells were being shot back and forth when a bomb shell hit the dugout killing one driver and wounding two, one was Frederick. The peices from the bomb hit Fredrick in the leg and one of his knees was blown down around his shin. The army sent Frederick to an American hospital in Milan, there was a shortage of nurses at the fairly new establishment son one nurse that was transferred there was Catherine, she became one of the nurses looking after Frederick. Frederick was operated upon for two and half-hours to have all the fragments out of his leg. Most of that year was spent in the hospital recuperating and Catherine’s nights were spent in Fre

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