If waging war is stupid, why do we work so hard at it?Christopher Speiss is a familiar, transformed into a Kodiak bear while still just a boy, and now an American military officer as well. When the First World War breaks out in Europe, he soon learns that there are forces other than magic that can sow death and misery on an unimaginable scale. Can the situation be brought under control before necromancy, the most dangerous weapon of all, is unleashed...