![]() ![]() It is 1919, and co-ordinating one of these heroic operations in Northern France is Captain James Mackenzie, soldiering on in the face of a nightmare of hell, with its heavy toll on the sullen, withdrawn and resentful volunteers, he is driven by compassion to bring some form of closure for grieving relatives back home. ![]() In this superb WW1 historical drama that goes back and forth in time, Philip Gray with his impressive research gives us a rare glimpse into the post-war abandoned battlefields and those army volunteers who carried out the soul destroying task of attempting to identify a few of the over 500 000 dead soldiers, their bodies in various states of decomposing decay, through tags and other possessions. ![]()
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