Men, Women and Guns by H.C. McNeile

On the Tuesday a board of doctors passed Jim Denver fit for General Service, having first given him the option of a month's home service if he liked. Two days after he turned up at the depot of his regiment, where he found men in various stages of convalescence -- light duty, ordinary duty at home, and fit to go out like himself. One or two he knew, and most of them he didn't. There were a few old regular officers and a large number of very new ones -- who were being led in the way they should go.

But there is little to tell of the time he spent waiting to go out. This is not a diary of his life -- not even an account of it; it is merely an attempt to portray a state of mind -- an outlook on life engendered by war, in a man whom war had caused to think for the first time.