This realistic portrait of post-traumatic madness is a moral fable as well

An ambitious historical novel takes on the 20th century’s two great wars, with some hiccups

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CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…