Man at War – Excerpt No. 121

He kept his pistol drawn using his off hand. It was fortunate that he had the foresight to reload while intercepting his opponents. He was expecting some sort of witty banter, but these two proved to be as stoic as the finest soldier on parade.

Seeing no need to drag this out, Marc began to circle the two, forcing them to adopt a defensive stance. Eventually one moved away from his partner enabling them to strike from two directions at once.

In the background there came the sound of muffled gunfire. It appeared that his team had found something within the redoubt and were engaging. Meanwhile there was a loud woosh from the sniper’s position. That mortar might prove useful to me.

a cinematic photograph of a bird's eye view of a British officer, armed with a polished silver sabre, circling two German soldiers in a tense nighttime standoff, set in a war-torn landscape during The Great War in 1915, with the officer wearing a traditional British uniform adorned with gold buttons and a red sash, and the German soldiers dressed in Pickelhaube helmets and grey greatcoats, the scene illuminated by the soft glow of a full moon and the faint light of distant artillery fire, with deep shadows and misty fog rolling in, captured in a dramatic and realistic photography style with muted earthy tones and subtle shadows.

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