Right in the center of the successful Canadian Corps attack on Vimy Ridge is the British 13th Infantry Brigade. And right in the middle of that - Mickey Bliss.
Mickey's wife and son - and sister - have made it from India to a British officer's hospital in Le Touquet to see him. But he's unconscious. And there's only one way to rouse him.
Celestine can't wait to leave Salonika, but fate takes her up the the Macedonian front on the night of the 26th and 28th Divisional attack on the Devil's Eye.
The Maoris of the New Zealand Pioneers struggle north from Messines to build a road of beech planking for the assault on Ypres. On the way they discover the real meaning of 'industrialized warfare'.
The Germans have developed a remote controlled powerboat jammed with explosives. The British are planning a D-Day style landing on the Belgian coast. Mickey Bliss is in the midst of two of the most extraordinary true stories of WW1.