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Young officer John Hilliard returns to his battalion in France following a period of sick leave in England. Despite having trouble adjusting to all the new faces, the stiff and reserved Hilliard forms a friendship with David Barton, a cheerful new recruit who has still to be bloodied in battle. But each knows that soon they will be separated...