Stalemate (The Red Gambit Series)
“ Rather surprisingly, the pain in his face had subsided to a constant dull ache.
The proper dressing, completed in a less pressurised environment, may well have helped. Certainly the painkillers pressed into his hand by the medics did, although Blagoslavov himself suspected that the vodka had been the greater measure.
The move north-west had been done quickly and efficiently, the ravaged units settling in at Barr and Eichoffen in record time, both villages relatively untouched by the t...wo wars that had rolled over them.
Quickly, he directed his units into rough defensive positions, and set his officers to the task of reorganising the shattered regiment.
His second in command returned to the small square, the smug look betraying the man, and that his search for somewhere appropriate to house the regimental headquarters had been more than successful.
Le Manoir was an imposing manor house set in its own grounds, and the splendour and sophistication of the interior was the precise opposite of everything that the tank officer had experienced over the last two and a bit months.MoreLess
The proper dressing, completed in a less pressurised environment, may well have helped. Certainly the painkillers pressed into his hand by the medics did, although Blagoslavov himself suspected that the vodka had been the greater measure.
The move north-west had been done quickly and efficiently, the ravaged units settling in at Barr and Eichoffen in record time, both villages relatively untouched by the t...wo wars that had rolled over them.
Quickly, he directed his units into rough defensive positions, and set his officers to the task of reorganising the shattered regiment.
His second in command returned to the small square, the smug look betraying the man, and that his search for somewhere appropriate to house the regimental headquarters had been more than successful.
Le Manoir was an imposing manor house set in its own grounds, and the splendour and sophistication of the interior was the precise opposite of everything that the tank officer had experienced over the last two and a bit months.MoreLess
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