ABSTRACT
Many years ago, under the sky of a far-off country in Europe, in the third year of the terrible conflagration of the First World War, a young man in military uniform was sitting on the platform of a small railway station waiting for his train. It was to take him to the front line, where the fire of battle was then raging, a fire from which so many never returned. Compelled by the storm of war to leave his family and his studies, he sat there brooding over the fate awaiting him in a few days.
