Texan sharpshooter Travis Lee, numbed by his experiences in the British trenches at Flanders, Northern France during World War I, comes to the realization that he may have a greater purpose in the war beyond killing the Germans.
Discusses the principal causes and events of World War I and considers what the outcome might have been for the participants and subsequent history had different decisions been made at crucial times before, during, and after the war.
Examines the origins of World War I as well asdiscussing the creation of the Western Front and several of the larger battles in which so many soldiers lost their lives in trench warfare.