The Cold Light of Dawn
By David Black
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A short story by David Black:
In 1916, the war on the Western Front was locked in stalemate. British soldiers, covered in blood-sucking lice, battled with their hated German foe in a sea of mud-filled shell craters and from shattered, rat-infested trenches. Causality figures, already appalling, were becoming even heavier as another frigid winter approached the front line.
Sometimes, surrounded by horror and tragedy men cracked, but then, shell-shock and traumatised combat stress were considered to be nothing but cowardice, by senior British staff officers, who commanded the British Expeditionary Force in safety, from miles behind the front.
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When 18-year-old 2nd Lieutenant Andrew Starkey was commissioned into the infantry, he crossed the Channel and joined his new battalion in Belgium. His illusions of family tradition and glory on the battlefield were quickly shattered, however, when the realities of war, and cruel circumstance forced him into a nightmare scenario, where no British officer wanted to go.
While training in England, he naturally expected to order his soldiers to kill the enemy. He never, in his wildest dream, expected to order them to kill their own comrades...
David Black
David Black is a former Fleet Street journalist and television documentary producer. He spent much of his childhood a short walk from the Royal Navy Submarine Memorial at Lazaretto Point on the Firth of Clyde, and he grew up watching the passage of both US and Royal Navy submarines in and out of the Firth’s bases at Holy Loch and Faslane. As a boy, the lives of those underwater warriors captured his imagination. When he grew up, he discovered the truth was even more epic, and so followed the inspiration for his fictional submariner, Harry Gilmour, and a series of novels about his adventures across the Second World War. David Black is also the author of a non-fiction book, Triad Takeover: A Terrifying Account of the Spread of Triad Crime in the West. He lives in Argyll.
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