During the German advance through Belgium into France in 1940, which led to the fall of France, Captain de Reixach is shot dead by a sniper. Three of his dragoons, involved with him in different capacities, remember him and help the reader piece together the realities behind the man and his death.
One was a distant relative, one his orderly, and the third who had been a jockey in his stable before the war, had also been his wife's secret lover.
During the German advance through Belgium into France in 1940, which led to the fall of France, Captain de Reixach is shot dead by a sniper. Three of his dragoons, involved with him in different capacities, remember him and help the reader piece together the realities behind the man and his death.
One was a distant relative, one his orderly, and the third who had been a jockey in his stable before the war, had also been his wife's secret lover.