A Long Long WayA Long Long Way

"In 1914, eighteen year-old Willie Dunne leaves behind Dublin, and everyone he loves in order to enlist in the Allied forces on the Western Front. Once there he encounters violence on a scale he could not have imagined, barely sustains his spirit with letters from home and the camaraderie of the boys who fight and die by his side. But when he returns home on leave to encounter the growing tensions over Irish independence, Willie soon finds himself confronting unbearable choices regarding family, patriotism, and duty"--Page 4 of cover.