The only war is the war you fought in.
Every veteran knows that.
Telling the story of three men executed to save a general s dignity, Paths of Glory portrays the utter futility and senselessness of war and the fanatical delirium of military honor and ambition. In 1917 Peter Strang is a soldier in the trenches of France. After being wounded, Peter finds himself in a strange world of plot, counter-plot, assassination, and subterfuge. In this extraordinary novel seamlessly blending fact and fiction, Dr. William Rivers must come to terms with his duty to make fighting men whole again for a war that he cannot support. In addition, poet Siegfried Sassoon, who has publicly denounced the war, must come to terms with his desertion of his comrades in arms.