Man at War – Excerpt No. 119

He scanned the horizon and noticed another two moving in from ruins of the town. Marc knew he could not effectively engage both groups before it was too late. So he had to alert the snipers and engage the most pressing threat.

He pulled out his revolver and fired off two rounds. The first struck the Hun in the back, and the other made a loud clang as it pieced the helmet. The shot was about an inch too high, but it was still enough to slow the man down.

Marc moved to his new objective like a blur, covering the two-hundred yard distance in twenty-two seconds. The snipers were now engaging, and he suspected a mortar or two would come next.

a cinematic photo of a British officer with a determined expression, wearing a trench coat and helmet, firing his revolver at two German soldiers, who are dressed in Pickelhaube helmets and greatcoats, in a nighttime scene set in a muddy trench during The Great War in 1915, with flashes of gunfire illuminating the dark sky, and the officer's face lit by the faint moonlight, his skin pale, with a strong jawline and piercing eyes, amidst the chaos of war, captured in a dramatic and intense photography style, with deep shadows and muted earthy tones.

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