Strange Meeting

Strange Meeting

"Things like this don't happen often in a lifetime..."<br /><br />John Hilliard, a young subaltern returning to the Western Front after a brief period of sick leave back in England blind to the horrors of the trenches, finds his battalion tragically altered. His commanding officer finds escape in alcohol, there is a new adjutant and even Hilliard's batman has been killed. <br /><br />But there is David Barton. As yet untouched and unsullied by war, radiating charm and common sense, forever writing long letters to his family.<br /><br />Theirs is a strange meeting and a strange relationship: the coming together of opposites in the summer lull before the inevitable storm.