recurring echoes, a narrative of war relates the story of four young English school friends during the Second World War. Serving respectively as a member of the Commandos, the Royal Navy Coastal Forces, an engineering student and an RAF fighter pilot, their individual experiences of the war in Europe between 1940 and 1945 is viscerally described. As death is measured in millions, the war consumes their youth, extracting a price they will endure for the remainder of their lives. To us, the outcome of the Second World War is history: to them, it was not.