A book that creates and tells the raw, intense settings of war; but unlike other works, the pictures are openly fake: each is the fruit of meticulous staging and represents a non-existent yet plausible memory. The soldiers are mannequins, and the scenes and objects among which they move are all reproduced in scale. As in a grotesque "doll’s house", war is staged as playful and grotesque representation without sacrificing emotion and pain: a surprising, deep reflection on the value of documentation and memory. "These photographs create a suspension of time, a melancholy silence in which we seem almost to hear whispered the mysteries of life and death, time and age, childhood, innocence and the awareness of adulthood, art, war, history, and questions such as: what are we looking at?" (Francine Prose).