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The sound of gunfire filled the theater as the newsreel appeared on the screen. Jake Boone, a doctor in Virginia, treating survivors of The Great War, had gone to see The Wizard of Oz for a brief respite. Little did he know that the newsreel of the German invasion of Poland would radically reshape the next five years of his life. Joining the Royal Army Medical Corps, he is assigned to the 51st Highland Division, seeing the British side of the war in Europe through American eyes, from the Battle of France to El Alamein, from North Africa to Normandy. Returning home damaged in body and soul,…mehr

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The sound of gunfire filled the theater as the newsreel appeared on the screen. Jake Boone, a doctor in Virginia, treating survivors of The Great War, had gone to see The Wizard of Oz for a brief respite. Little did he know that the newsreel of the German invasion of Poland would radically reshape the next five years of his life. Joining the Royal Army Medical Corps, he is assigned to the 51st Highland Division, seeing the British side of the war in Europe through American eyes, from the Battle of France to El Alamein, from North Africa to Normandy. Returning home damaged in body and soul, Jake is haunted by the men he could not save, and love he found and lost.