"Will I be a coward?" This is the haunting thought that torments every soldier as he enters his first battle. Into the fevered heat of the fight he advances. The roar of artillery deafens him ... the sight of his comrades falling all around him horrifies him. This is the gripping, stirring story of how one boy answered the question - either to stand and possibly die or to run away and later face his comrades and himself as a coward.