Echoes of the war is a wonderfully moving simple book of four stories involving ordinary families during The Great War. Each of the stories takes place over a single scene. The first one was about an elderly woman with no family who spontaneously "adopts" a man who is about to go to war. The second is about the relationship between a father and his son who is inlisting as an officer. The third story follows an elderly man with dementia as he's trying to make sense of the changes that are happening around him. The last is about a father and son and trying to move on after the son's death.