Colonel Belchamp's Battlefield Tour

It is May 1964. Devastated by the recent death of his small son, James Butland joins a tour of the 1940 battlefields in France where he served as an 18-year-old in the defence of Calais. There he reviews his own life, the conflicts of growing up in the interwar years and the approach of war in 1939. At the threshold of going to Oxford University, war is declared and James is plunged, not unwilling...