The English Patient-3

 Because the villa, as the story clarified before, still has many bombs buried in the area even after Germans retreated, sappers, Kip and Hardy, come to the villa to defuse the bombs. Kip had a difficulty defusing a bomb one day, but he overcame the trouble with Hana's aid. However, Hardy is killed while defusing the other bomb alone.

 In Chapter 4, the English patient tells Hana his story when he was in the desert in fragments. He was one of other Europeans who mapped and explored the desert. He worked alone and usually accompanied the Bedouin people instead of other European soldiers. As he worked with the Bedouin people, he found out that the nationality and the feeling of belonging to a particular group only destroy people. He had wanted to disappear and never belong to anything since then. 

 The English patient did not want to belong to a particular nation because the only fact that people are from different countries makes them fight and destroy others. For example, whenever the British soldiers and the German soldiers meet by coincidence, they have to start shooting first to survive. However, in the desert, it doesn't simply work like that.

 The feeling that someone belongs to somewhere is usually a human instinct that everyone wants to have. People who do not belong feel that they are isolated and lose confidence. However, the war violates even the innate instinct of a human. The story of the English patient shows the extent the war can change people.