August 1914. The world would never be the same for millions of people.
The Great War was fought by ordinary men. They became small cogs in an industrial killing machine. Arthur (Wally) Walton, a boy of 16 enlists the day war is declared to help a friend. The men he meets span class, education, politics and religion. Thrown together by fate, their war was not all mud, death and barbed wire.
They trained, marched and peeled potatoes. Gambled,...