The Distant Crown

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The Distant Crown

The mud of the Somme did not merely cover the earth; it consumed it, a thick, sucking medium that swallowed boots, rifles, and men with the same indifferent appetite, and Sergeant Elias Thorne found himself pinned beneath a collapsed parapet, his chest heaving against the weight of wet clay that had once been a field of wheat. In his right hand, clamped so tightly that the knuckles had turned...

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