This is signaler Mickey Bliss's first day in combat - 7th October 1914. He wants to use the wireless on his lorry to communicate with radio-equipped British airplanes. It is a leap in the dark that could endanger everyone.
In the chaos of a hospital in the rear, Mickey Bliss tries to save the life of Walter Oddy. But the only doctor who is willing to help is the most important figure from his past: Celestine de Tullio.
Based on real-life war diaries and memoirs, this is the story of Mickey Bliss's 21st October 1914: Mickey wants to take a back seat in the developing battle, but a crazed artillery captain has other ideas.
Celestine takes up her old job in her London Hospital and finds confidence tricksters inside and outside the walls - not to mention her husband, doing the same in the halls of high finance.
The unbelievable story of the first 11th November of the First World War, when but a handful of men stopped a German Army thrust that would have won them the war - in 1914.
