Remembrance Sunday, 2009 is a cold, grey November day in Reading, England. Andrew Connolly, a fifteen year old boy is taking part in a wreath-laying ceremony to honour the war dead, including his father, recently killed by the Taliban in Afghanistan where he was serving with the British Army. The whole scene is overlooked by the famous town landmark, The Maiwand Lion, a massive cast-iron monument erected at the end of the Nineteenth Century to commemorate British war dead killed in the last Afghan War. As the ceremony reaches its climax and people stand in silent observance to honour the...