
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 stranger in the carriage with Barney & his mother tells them a story to pass the time & what a story The story of a young man a young soldier in the trenches 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 have made
- a mistake he must put right before it is too late