Attacks: The Story of Ward of the Thirteenth

With The Great War and the Sixties, this (auto)biographical docudrama highlights two eras that marked the previous century. It encompasses a range of feelings, typical of people who want to cope with the most harrowing circumstances, is exciting and then again humorous.
1968. Eduard Ceulemans has Alzheimer's. He lives back in the period that has marked him the most; the one with his regiment during the First World War. His fourteen-year-old grandson struggles with his emotions. How far can a budding adolescent penetrate the mind of his grandfather, and what image does the war veteran form of him?
Each one is addressed in turn in this literary novel, which is about war and generations, belief and disbelief, and about keeping things alive or watching them fade away - through time, or through the mind.
The book describes the life of a Flemish front soldier and that of his fiancée in the English Birtley, where Belgians were making bombs. Fifty years later, the boy is confronted with the disease that creeps into Eduard's head...
Roland Bergeys is an author, musician and theatre maker. He has won several prizes in literary competitions, and with his groups Berline and Borsalino he brings the sung performances of his books. With 'Aanvallen! - het verhaal van Ward van het 13e' he lets part of his youth revive.

The beautiful illustrations by Dieter Dresselaers accentuate the breathtaking atmosphere of this book.