Only Birds AboveWar doesn't happen just to the soldierits effects and after effects are felt down the generations. Only Birds Above by Portland Jones spans two wars and two generations, looking at the lasting impacts of war on the lives it touches. This is the story of Arthur Watkins, a blacksmith, who leaves his beloved young wife Helen to serve with the 10th Light Horse Regiment in the Middle East during World War I. He returns without his horse, a man forever