This work tells the true story of young minister Hugh Wallace Mann and his one and only love Jessie, from the earliest days of their friendship in 1911, to a military hospital bed on the Normandy coast after the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917 Hugh evokes the strenuous routine of army camps, the relative calm of billets, the horror, brutality and excitment of trenches and battle, and in writing, he immortalises his love for Jessie