A powerful novel of a teenager who fights in the First World War, hoping to redeem himself after the death of his brother.

Feeling responsible for the accidental death of his recently conscripted brother, fifteen-year-old Thomas Elkin takes on the identity of his dead sibling -- and enters into the fray of the conflict. His burning ambition is to die a glorious death in his brother's name.

Believing that in fully submitting to the reality of war he is atoning for his sins, he faces all the attendant horrors with a steel will and a poignant resignation. As the Great War rages, both personal conflict and global conflict raise questions of morality and mortality, guilt and faith -- as this moving novel touches upon the existential crises faced on the battlefield by the men who fought.

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• Literature & FictionHistorical Fiction20th CenturyWorld War I

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