Retrospective

Imagine a young man brushing aside the cobwebs in the loft of his Grandmother's house, trying to make more space amongst the piles of boxes, old carpets, bags and assorted junk collected over the years so that a new generation of bits and pieces can be stored away. 

Amongst it all, a nondescript, pretty old, box that demands a little further investigation. Inside, he finds his Great Grandfather's handwritten retrospective account of the time he served in the Middle East during the First World War, simply entitled, 'Retrospect'