Summoned home from university in Cambridge before the end-of-term Christmas festivities, the last thing that Jack expects is to be made the custodian of a secret that his dying grandfather has kept for more than sixty years. What unfolds is a story of a platoon of largely Christian soldiers fighting their way across the half-forgotten World War One battlefields of Sinai and Palestine and wrestling with how to reconcile belief in a loving God with the realities of war. The soldiers face life and death; justice and mercy; intrigue and terror; and one of the darkest episodes in human history. In a world of fear and suffering, can they find faith, hope or even love?