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IN MEMORIAM - ALICE WINN KARTONIERT (TB)

It's 1914  and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides
of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt  Sidney Ellwood and the
rest of their classmates  all of whom are safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in
the English countryside. They receive weekly dispatches from The Preshutian  their school
newspaper  informing them of older classmates killed or wounded in action. Their heroic deaths
only make the war more exciting. Gaunt  half-German  is busy fighting his own private battle-
an all-consuming infatuation with his best friend  the gorgeous  rich  charming Ellwood-not
having a clue that Ellwood is pining for him in return. Meanwhile  Gaunt's German mother and
twin sister ask him to enlist as an officer in the British army to protect the family from the
anti-German attacks they're already facing. Gaunt signs up immediately  relieved to escape his
overwhelming feelings for Ellwood. The front is horrific  of course  and though Gaunt tries to
dissuade Ellwood from joining him on the battlefield  Ellwood soon rushes to join him  fueled
by his education in Greek heroics and romantic wartime poetry. Before long  most of their
classmates have followed suit. Once in the trenches  the boys become intimately acquainted with
the harsh realities of war. Ellwood and Gaunt find fleeting moments of solace in one other  but
their friends are all dying  often in front of them  and no one knows when they'll be next--

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