Explains the build-up to the campaign and exposes the many missed opportunities prior to 25 October, which could have ended the war. The various phases of the Charge (the Charge, the action at the guns, behind the guns, and the retreat) are explored from the points of view of each regiment engaged.
Vienna, 1984. Fifty years after his first visit, retired British General Sir Herbert Christie returns to the city where he first knew romantic love and loss in the midst of civil war. But the opening of his Austrian uncle's time-capsule legacy entangles his family in a web of Cold War espionage, and forces him to confront his past and his faith as never before.