It is September, 1918 and the war to end all wars rages in France. On his way back to the Western Front, a young American Army captain from the 69th New York Regiment is waiting anxiously on the platform of London's Waterloo Station. It is there that he spies an old man reading from a crimson text. As the train for Southampton arrives, the old man suddenly speaks. "My travel takes me to the end of the line. Your company is welcome within my carriage."...