Echoes From Verdun

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Minutes I must remember: The Minutes.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>On a blustery night in October 1932 thirty-six-year-old Guntheir climbs his childhood treehouse to forever escape the nightmare of World War 1. For sixteen years July 1 1916 has haunted him. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Minutes</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> spent in </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>No Man's Land</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. Their memory wiped clean why? Was he responsible for Jimmy's death? Did he trip on the barbed wire or fall from cowardice? Are there other horrors that take refuge in the minutes? To this day the questions linger.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>With the support of his grandfather Guntheir steps into the past reflecting on poignant memories that have shaped him into the man he has become. He revisits childhood innocence death soul-deep friendships and forbidden love that even now carries him through the darkest moments. He yearns to move forward adapt and live. However to do so requires that he revisit the trenches where the war destroyed him and everything he understood. The day when nineteen thousand British soldiers were cheated of their dreams never to move again...</span></p>