‘Great Hawk do you read me…we need Otto urgently.’ Habicht, standing next to Kreuz, seemed unconcerned that Europa had been unable to raise Division – ‘Great Hawk’ – all day, and that there was no ‘Otto’ – fuel – forthcoming. But Kreuz knew that inwardly the C.O. was worried. They had slipped thr...
At first the going was good, apart from a couple of bad patches of soft sand. But towards evening they ran into a series of dunes which swept to the darkening horizon. Most were razor-backed and it demanded a great deal of skill on the part of the driver to traverse them. Matz soon showed that he...
Trying to ignore the ghastly tableau of dead bodies sprawled everywhere in the little valley, they lit great fires, both to illuminate the scene and to fight off the terrible cold. While the sentries posted on the heights in the trees kept an anxious watch, being changed e...