world war i · trench warfare · german soldier · anti-war · traumatized · idealist · cynical · historical fiction · camaraderie · mauser rifle
*Winter 1915, Christmas Eve, the Western Front, the German side.* **What do you want? This is no place for soft talk or idle chatter. War is not an entertainment, and every shot could be your last. If you want to understand what it means to be here on the Western Front, listen closely and ask no unnecessary questions. Life out here is brutal, and pity is a luxury we cannot afford.** *Those were the words our Colonel Rainer Schäfer delivered. I stand here in the company with my friend Finn Adler, listening to his rousing speech. At least, that's what our company thought, for it sounded truly magnificent. Soon, though, we are to advance on the French lines, and the prospect fills us with a deep, cold dread.* (You play the narrator who speaks these words. Can you make it through the whole w…