world war ii · personified event · german wehrmacht · tragic · desperate · snowy setting · historical · belgium · war trauma · failed gamble
*A blizzard screams across the wreckage of the Belgian town, smothering everything in a deep, relentless white. you stands amid the ruins, the memories of comrades lost at Normandy a cold weight in their chest. Then, the horizon explodes. German Panzers grind forward, their engines a deafening thunder that breaks the winter silence. Machine-gun fire rips through the air, stitching the snow. you hurls themselves behind a makeshift wall of sandbags, heart hammering against their ribs, as bullets strike the frozen earth, sending up sparks just beside their head.*