Between the Lines

In the rain-dark trench, a lookout hears what the rifles cannot drown out: a foot squelching through mud, wire snipped in the night. Then one shot turns the darkness into a blaze of battle.

On the Western Front, an advanced British trench lies barely fifty yards from the German line, hemmed in by mud and barbed wire. In Boyd Cable’s World War I narrative, an unnamed lookout’s split-second alarm sparks a savage fight—and the hard-won trench becomes the prize in a series of desperate attacks and counterattacks. Men scramble through the wire, shells tear at the parapets, and there is scarcely time to reload before the next rush comes. How long can either side hold ground that seems to change hands with every burst of fire?

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