From enlistment in Lord Kitchener's army, through the great set-piece battles in Flanders, two northern lads struggle to survive through the long years of static warfare and the advent of the tank until the armistice of November 1918. Heroism and abject fear - the lives of the Tommies in the trenches of Flanders fighting the Hun brought graphically to life in the story of Matti and Enrico.