Brian-hesse
The Trench
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The Trench |
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This is part of the introduction to the book
Rats
in the Fog
The Western
Front 1914
Private Otto
Wagner cautiously poked his head above the third tier
of sandbags,
the only barrier between his high forehead and a French
sniper’s
bullet. Despite only having served two months in the newly
dug trenches of
the Western front, he witnessed enough head shot
wounds to know
that peering over the sandbags when the enemy is
just a stone’s
throw away, is beyond brash, its plain stupid. Feeling
like a petulant
child ignoring Mother’s warning, he silenced his inner
voice and
scanned the length of the enemy trench. He didn’t need to
scan too long
for what he was risking his life to see. There just a few
hundred yards
behind the French line was the still smoldering
cathedral of Reims.
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