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#MilitantFactionsQuotes 39: Each morning in fox-hole more dead bodies, Panzer divisions of lice
Each time we tried to retreat there came bombardment all around as if entire Russian 62nd army had no interest apart from the destruction of a small, outgunned unit of Romanian villagers. Each morning in fox-hole more dead bodies, Panzer divisions of lice; by December 18 only four left from a corps of forty. Me, plus three guys I don’t even like. To keep angry and generate heat we curse Molotov, Ribbentrop and above all Antonescu whose direct orders we received before entering city and use as shit-paper. All is liquid. There is no magic here. Only thanks too cold for putrefaction.
-From "The Angel of Stalingrad", one of the stories in Mark Piggott's fiction/non-fiction collection "Militant Factions" available in paperback or Kindle from Amazon.