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Flanders, June
1917: a British officer and celebrated poet, is shot dead,
killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell
shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is arrested
and, although he protests his innocence, charged with his
murder. Douglas Kingsley is a conscientious objector, previously
a detective with the London police, now imprisoned for his
beliefs. He is released and sent to France in order to secure a
conviction. Forced to conduct his investigations amidst the hell
of The Third Battle of Ypres, Kingsley soon discovers that both
the evidence and the witnesses he needs are quite literally
disappearing into the mud that surrounds him. Ben Elton's tenth
audio book is a gut-wrenching historical drama, which explores
some fundamental questions. What is murder? What is justice in
the face of unimaginable daily slaughter? And where is the
honour in saving a man from the gallows if he is only to be
returned to die in a suicidal battle? As the gap between
legally-sanctioned and illegal murder becomes evermore blurred,
Kingsley quickly learns that the first casualty when war comes
is truth.
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