Articles of War (2008)
“NO ONE IN THE TRUCK SEEMED TO KNOW ANYONE ELSE. THEY rode in silence for a mile or so; then one man asked for a light, another wondered aloud if anyone had heard any recent baseball scores, and soon several conversations had sprung up.
Heck watched the surroundings. He had taken a position near the tailgate, where he could, he figured, escape most quickly if the need arose. He also had a vague notion that he might be a sort of a hero if he sighted some unexpected danger. But mostly he was afrai...d and his fear made his thoughts jumpy. He seemed possessed of an excess of energy and first one leg then the other trembled uncontrollably, causing his heel to tap rapidly on the steel floor. Amid all the truck’s jolting, none of the others appeared to notice.
They passed between hedgerows, then long wheat fields often densely pocked with craters and foxholes and the blackened, twisted, unnatural corpses of tanks and light artillery, half-tracks and jeeps. In one hedgerow, an American Sherman tank hung precariously in a gap it had created only to meet there its demise.MoreLess
Heck watched the surroundings. He had taken a position near the tailgate, where he could, he figured, escape most quickly if the need arose. He also had a vague notion that he might be a sort of a hero if he sighted some unexpected danger. But mostly he was afrai...d and his fear made his thoughts jumpy. He seemed possessed of an excess of energy and first one leg then the other trembled uncontrollably, causing his heel to tap rapidly on the steel floor. Amid all the truck’s jolting, none of the others appeared to notice.
They passed between hedgerows, then long wheat fields often densely pocked with craters and foxholes and the blackened, twisted, unnatural corpses of tanks and light artillery, half-tracks and jeeps. In one hedgerow, an American Sherman tank hung precariously in a gap it had created only to meet there its demise.MoreLess
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