In Memoriam

Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood are students at an idyllic English boarding school in 1914, each secretly in love with the other and each certain the feeling is not returned. When Gaunt, half German, enlists to prove his loyalty and escape his feelings, Ellwood follows him into the trenches of the Western Front. The war strips away every reason for silence between them, but it also carries a body count that no amount of love can outrun. Winn moves the story from the sheltered idyll of school poetry through gas attacks, prison camps, and the daily arithmetic of survival, building a romance readers know is doomed from the start.