A collection of poems inspired by events a century ago, stories of those who served, those who waited and were bereft, stories of the lands that were battlegrounds, stories that illustrate the bewildering , terrifying contrast which forced itself upon men who marched proudly from their villages into the nightmarish landscape of war, The humanity of all those involved is a constant theme in Robert Pike's poems and the poems communicate a keen empathy with their subjects. War is monstrous but it also brings out the best in humanity - the individuals that it envelops are beings of infinite variety.