'Dear Dad, Floppy is gone and I'll never see him again, ever. We had him for Christmas and I didn't know because Mam said we were having something that was a bit like chicken.' Pippin's distressed letter to her father, describing her Christmas dinner in 1916, reflected the difficulties of the families that were left behind when their men went off to war. She was 9 years old and they had just eaten her pet rabbit. The news, however, brought comfort to Edward Craigie who, along with his two lifelong pals, quick-witted, rugby loving Liam and the clumsy but compassionate Big Charlie, had just...