Many of these stories deal with the spiritual legacy of the Great War In 'A Madonna of the Trenches' an orderly is visited by the recurrent nightmare of 'the frozen dead who creak in the frost' Bereavement reaches into the life of a tobacconist in 'The Interests of the Bretheren' Kipling depicts characters struggling to speak their truths in the midst of a changed world, attempting to create order and ritual out of systems, habits and procedures