Question: What is Blake and Schofield’s mission?
Answer: Blake and Schofield’s mission is to get over to the other battalion to deliver a message to a Colonel to hold off an attack.
Question: What did Schofield say about the medal he won in the battle of the Somme?
Answer: Schofield said he traded the medal he won in the battle of the Somme for a bottle of wine.
Question: Who, specifically, may die if the Devonshire Regiment attacks at dawn?
Answer: Blake’s brother may die if the Devonshire Regiment attacks at dawn.
Question: What happens in the German bunker?
Answer: The German bunker is booby trapped and it blows up.
Question: Who do Blake and Schofield save at the farmhouse and what happens to the Blake?
Answer: Blake and Schofield save a German soldier at the farmhouse and Blake is stabbed by the German.
Question: What does Schofield commit to do for Blake?
Answer: Schofield commits to deliver the message and find and save Blake’s brother for him.
Question: How does Schofield make up some time in his travel to his destination?
Answer: Schofield makes up some time in his travel to his destination by getting a ride on a truck.
Question: A sniper shoots at Schofield as he tries to cross a destroyed bridge. What happens to Schofield in the building in which the sniper is hiding?
Answer: Schofield gets shot on the bridge and makes it to the building.
Question: What does Schofield give the French woman. Why?
Answer: Schofield stumbles upon a French woman hiding out from German soldiers. She is caring for an infant, and Schofield gives her his canned food and the milk he found at the abandoned farm where Blake died.
Question: Describe Schofield’s actions at night as he tries to pass through Écoust, which is in German hands?
Answer: He is running through abandoned buildings. He faces some German soldiers, but manages to jump into a river to escape the solider. He uses a log to float in the water.