The Liberation of Paris by Len Levinson

Author:Len Levinson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: world war ii, nazis, war adventure, len levinson, the sergeant, liberation of paris
Publisher: Piccadilly Publishing

The Americans beneath the deuce-and-a-half weren’t the only ones who viewed the sudden turn of events with disbelief. In the German bunker, General Felger gnashed his teeth as he watched his tanks retreating across the field. He’d thought he won a great victory, but then suddenly the French counterattacked and caught half his tanks in a gigantic pincer movement. The other half of his tanks got away, but a French tank corps was right behind them. The German tanks looked as though they were going to retreat all the way back to Berlin, and Felger couldn’t let that happen.

“Stop them!” Felger screamed.

General Buchheim’s countenance had changed from that of a confident warlord to a fat little man who was naked and afraid. “I told them to stop but they won’t,” he said weakly.

Felger turned around and his eyes blazed with fury. “Tell your tank commander that if he doesn’t counterattack immediately I’ll relieve him of command and have him shot. Tell him to pass the word along that any man who fails to stop and fight will be shot and his family in Germany will suffer the consequences. Is that clear?”

“Yes my general!”

“And if you can’t convince them, the same treatment will apply to you. Do you get my drift?”

“Yes sir.”

“Then get to work!”

General Buchheim picked up the field telephone, and General Felger turned to the battlefield again. His eyes passed those of Major Lubel, and Felger thought Lubel was looking at him reproachfully.

“What are you looking at?” Felger screamed.

“Everything,” Lubel replied.

“I suppose you feel vindicated, now that it appears that you were right and I was wrong.”

“I cannot take pleasure in my vindication when the blood of good German soldiers is soaking the ground out there.”

Felger narrowed his eyes to slits. “All battles are bloody, Lubel. All soldiers know that. But a great field commander never shrinks from the sight of blood or hesitates to spill it if he thinks it will win him victory. This battle isn’t over yet by any means. Watch, and you may learn something.”

Lubel raised his chin slowly. “Let’s hope that you learn something,” he said softly.

“What was that!”

“I said that all of us can learn from the great battles of history, sir.”

Felger looked coldly at him, then turned and trained his binoculars down on the battlefield. His tanks were in full retreat, and there was even the danger that French troops would overrun the hill he was standing on. But he was confident that German soldiers would stand and fight when ordered to do so in a forthright manner.

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