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

to New York

she passed it to me in 1981

She takes us into dugouts where rescue teams awoke to dirt thrown on their faces by scores of terrified moles

The story explores areas rarely examined: secret service operations

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

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