Front-line Fox-hole. Swasika Flags serve as markers for german aircraft. (scanned by HOS Bandit)

Fox-hole

Usually when I post a photo, whatever caption I include came from the book. However, the one that went with this photo failed to give the photo justice. This young soldier, absorbed in a book. trying to distance himself from his daily reality, if only for a brief moment. Was it a collection of short poems? Perhaps a book by Traki..Or that tome by Schiller, he promised father he'd read. It could even have been some swill by Darre, Blut und Boden, that he was reading for secret amusement. Whatever the case may have been, whatever book he was using as a vehicle of escape, I hope that it worked. (scanned by HOS Bandit) 

A Million Miles Away

German perimeter fox-hole. (scanned by HOS Bandit)