Worthless Men - Hardcover

Two years into the Great War, and a trainload of wounded soldiers is due to arrive in an English city. At the local mansion young Montague Beckwith - himself a psychological casualty of the trenches - prepares to receive them. In the poorest part of town, Walter Barley's mother prays her son is one of them. And everywhere is Walter, a ghostly presence who watches as the girl he loved from a distance is drawn into Montague's orbit. This haunting novel tells the tragic story of a boy who proved that those at the bottom of the heap could be the most valiant of all.