Red Vengeance

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His eyes weary from continued scrutiny of the monotonous landscape, Johann Angst looked again through his binoculars and believed he was minutes away from the worst day of his life. More realistically, he thought this could well be the very last day of his life. The steppe grass had dried to gray-brown from the long, relentless summer. Scores of olive drab mounds—dead Russians—littered the desolate ground. The sun was still low, a white plate in a pale sky, and this day was proving to be as unbearably hot as they all had been since his arrival to the eastern front a little over a month earlier. He centered his attention on the balka, or ravine, that lay approximately eight hundred meters away. A natural feature that predominated throughout the region of the southern Ukraine, the balka meandered for several kilometers parallel to the network of the German defensive trench lines, which Army Group South called the Tortoise Line.

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