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出版	Pen and Sword, 2012-10-17
主題	Fiction / Historical / 20th Century / World War IFiction / War & MilitaryFiction / Coming of Age
ISBN	17815997699781781599761
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=zcOIDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.