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My name is Lucien, and I am nineteen when the world collapses into war. I was meant to take over my grandfather Gaston's farm one day, to live the quiet life of a young man from northern France. But in August 1914, as German troops advance toward our village, I leave everything behind and enlist. They say the war will be short. They say we'll be home for the harvest. Home by Christmas. They are wrong. In the trenches, I discover what war truly is: the mud, the fear, the first dead, the first wounds. We stop being boys. We stop being men. We become beasts-killing machines, cannon fodder. My faith in humanity shatters in the clay of Artois, the chalk of Champagne, and the hell of Verdun. But even on the edge of the abyss, a single hand reaches out to me. A hand that refuses to let me fall. Hers. Brave, devoted, luminous. The only light left in a world gone dark.

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