Dreams of Innocence by Lisa Appignanesi

Author:Lisa Appignanesi [Appignanesi, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Lisa Appignanesi
Published: 2012-12-12T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

1931

When Leo Adler was fourteen, his daydreams were filled with glorious images of heroic self-mortification.

He was in a dense wood traversed by a cold mountain stream. A morning mist curled from the water while the ground beneath their trampling feet was still covered with a thin crust of frost. They had already marched some five miles, crossing the river by way of a rickety bridge now long lost to view. Their packs were heavy on their backs, but their shoulders were straight, their heads high like knights of old marching fearlessly into battle. Directly in front of him was Gerhardt, their leader, Sir Gerhardt, taller than the rest, his shoulders straighter, his white-gold hair glinting in shafts of sunlight, his voice stronger, deeper in the harmony of their song.

Leo marched, sang, his voice matching his leader’s.

Forward, forward, forward,

Youth knows no danger

Our flag is greater than death…

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