Started calling them started saying you are dead men risen and he was referring to the type of battalion the number nine company. That Company Since the end of the Second World War said he was trying to say you are a reincarnation of these men from the Second World War. You are their descendents. You are dead men risen and this was a way of unifying them but it also became a sort of a theme of the book really because the three main characters Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorne bowl and the Company Commander and a the platoon commander were all killed in action. It was the first time those three levels have been killed in action since the korean war. In a sense that story is from the grave. Their testimony from the grave is at the core of the book and so in a way their detriment and the other resonance for me was there was an incidence which was the emotional heart of the book which has won seven watch guardsmen were in the back of a vehicle that toppled into a canal. A horrendous inciden