by author of "All Quiet On The Western Front"; copyright 1945; translated from the German; D. Appleton-Century Company publishers, New York; hardbound; book in very good condition with gilt lettering on cover and spine; dust jacket has edge wear (pic).
 
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It is 1939. Despite a law banning him from performing surgery, Ravic – a German doctor and refugee living in Paris – has been treating some of the city’s most elite citizens for two years on the behalf of two less-than-skillful French physicians.

Forbidden to return to his own country, and dodging the everyday dangers of jail and deportation, Ravic manages to hang on – all the while searching for the Nazi who tortured him back in Germany. And though he’s given up on the possibility of love, life has a curious way of taking a turn for the romantic, even during the worst of times…