The Nieuport Gathering -

Ivan Petrus

Lannoo

2012

128 páginas

4h 16m

ISBN-13: 9789020943627

In the trenches of WWI, three soldiers meet: the Belgian Raoul, the Frenchman Jean-Marie and the Englishman (and writer) Thomas. They have just countered the first wave of attacks from the Germans at the Yser front. On November 1, 1914, they spend the day together and agree to meet again in exactly 10 years’ time.

To tell the story of these three historic characters, author Ivan Petrus Adriaenssens presents a fourth person: the British George. He bumps into Thomas later, is given the war novel he has written and is invited to the gathering in 1924. George loses the manuscript, but is the only one of the four to survive the war. He feels guilty, even after sixty years, and goes to the spot every ten years from 1924 onwards.