In order to distract themselves, Bettani, Graham, Sturridge, and their cooker,Jones, they spend their time in eating and memorizing their early life before the war. They have learned that a massive German attack is approaching and they are depressed as they wait for their fate.
Lugubrious and anticlimactic, inadequate testimonial to those slaughtered in this pointless battle, and the million more who would die before the war's end.
It's like a handsomely constructed, old-fashioned item of furniture, the sort of well-crafted drama that's fallen out of favor but still captures your admiration.
Its cerebral message boils down to a "war is hell" theme, a sentiment that's been conveyed more effectively in countless other works. It's a journey that mostly retraces steps.
