Casca 20: Soldier of Gideon (17 page)

He dug long and deep and wide, and laid the two young Israelis,
Wardi, and Moynihan side by side.

At the last moment he placed
Weintraub's red helmet over Tommy's face.

"To keep the sun out of your eyes, old son."

World War I. It was mankind’s first taste of modern warfare. And before it ended, most of Europe would turn into a corpse-littered battleground. Thousands would die in the hail of machine-gun fire, by the burning agony of mustard gas, and on the blood-soaked steel of a bayonet. There was no honor or glory for the soldiers who fought in the rat-infested trenches…

And for Casca, there was only the horror of a new kind of war – and a bitter envy for the dead.

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