"Charley runs into French Foreign Legion deserter Blue, who relates the ordeal of the seige of Verdun in 1916, the battle that brought the French Army to the brink of collapse."
"Charley and co live the hellish underground existence of sappers, fight in the battle of Paschendaele and enter the infamous Etaples training ground."
"Tensions at Etaples boil over as the soldiers rebel against their life of hard treatment, and as usual Charley Bourne is caught right in the middle..."