A rat hunter on the Western Front suspects his prey are plotting against him...A routine trip through the trenches leads to an unexpected insight...A soldier discovers the most dangerous enemy can't be killed...A bereaved woman performs a forbidden ritual to avenge her father's murder...A doomed militia is offered a path to victory that leads to damnation...Here are five tales of war from the pen of military historian and novelist Sean McLachlan. From the bushwhackers of the American Civil War to the trenches of WWI, these stories walk the line from the strange and paranormal to the frighteningly real.