The powerful new novel from the master storyteller - inspired by the true story
of one man who might have stopped World War II. 1940. The train is under attacks
from German fighters.
In the darkness, sheltering in a railway tunnel, the s
tranger in the carriage with Barney and his mother tells them a story to pass th
e time. And what a story. The story of a young man, a young soldier in the trenc
hes of World War I who, on the spur of the moment, had done what he thought was
the right thing.
It turned out to have been the worst mistake he ever could h
ave made - a mistake he must put right before it is too late...
