"Skinning the children for a war-drum... It's quicker and easier to eat your young." 

Andrew Byrne left his young wife and country as a naive youth, believing that ambition and love could transform a crumbling world; he returned a jaded shell of the man that had left.  

Dead dove for obvious reasons. Mentions and graphic depictions of war, war crimes, trauma, survivor’s guilt, racism/bigotry, period-specific beliefs.