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In 1940, a young boy and his mother meet a WWI veteran who tells the haunting story of a meeting between a British and a German soldier, the latter of whom was probably the young Adolf Hitler. Morpurgo returns with another moral dilemma reflected through a compelling story based on some truth, as explained in an afterword.