Soldier

"I had never been as scared as I was just then. As I stumbled towards a ladder I felt a sense of dread take hold of me.[..] I knew that any second the whistle would blow. You could've heard a bullet drop. Everyone was just standing petrified, waiting. And then, it came."

When World War 1 breaks out, 17-year-old Alfie Tuck signs up to the army along with his two brothers to defend his country. In the muddy trenches of the Western Front, Alfie sees horrible suffering and lives through extreme ...