'How do I know that God is Good? I don't. I gamble like a man. I bet my life upon one side in life's great war. I must. I can't stay out. I must take sides.' The author was the best known army chaplain in the First World War. William Purcell, his biographer, wrote: 'Everything Studdert Kennedy did and wrote bore the marks of a man, passionate in his suffering for striving humanity, fierce in his hatred of hypocrisy and cant.'