“How the Mighty” Chapter 3 — Rudi

The Race to the Sea

Mounting a machine-gun

If this is what they do to empty pastures and hedges, Rudi thought, pressing himself deeper into the stinking water of a ditch, then the coastal fortifications must be taking a pounding.

The earth shuddered below, the footsteps of a giant running full speed at him. Klomp, klomp, KLOMP… He put his hands over his head, burying his face in the muck as the world exploded in earth and deafening noise.