I am really excited about this story. As I said I love the WWI era in history and I think it has not been explored enough.
In many ways I see WWI as the true starting point of the post modern age. We'd been chugging along to drastic change in the landscape of how people lived and worked and even population size since the mid Victorian surge of the growth of industrialization.
When we reached WWI that new form of war and how humans kill one another became a unique and almost mechanized system of death. However the tools to create this death was the human animal, who for centuries prior, had lived in open fields and could not have been more removed from the idea of 'machine'.
This new trench warfare and the introduction of rapid fire guns, tanks, and the aeroplane thrusted the human condition into the post modern world we are only now exiting.
I am truly excited to see where this goes.