By Colin Forbes
May perhaps 1940, the German panzer divisions roll throughout Northern France and all turns out misplaced. simply the British strength stands among the enemy and the coast. Can one British tank that is bobbing up at the back of the German traces smash an entire German tank department? the writer additionally wrote "Year of the Golden Ape".
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It was an astonishing scene: the sun shining down so that it was almost hot, the inhabitants standing in the old square rigid with fear, like waxwork figures out of a tableau. Only five minutes earlier they had been going about their daily routines with a touch of anxiety but with no real fear. Then it had happened - the scared boy running into the square shouting something about a huge dust cloud. He had hardly finished telling his story when the motor-cyclists had flashed across the square, tyres screaming at the corners, vanishing as they raced off to the west.
Barnes slammed down the lid, dropped to the turntable floor and rotated the periscope so that he saw the tunnel moving towards them. 'Wait for it,' he warned the others, but mainly to warn Reynolds who was driving. , a high-pitched whistle growing to a piercing shriek which easily dominated the engine sound, penetrating the armoured walls as though they were papier-mache. It's a direct hit this time, thought Penn. He looked at Davis, but the gunner's eyes stared fixedly at the turntable floor, his jaw muscles clenched, his forehead moist with sudden sweat.
He vaguely wondered what Barnes was going to do next, a line of thought which was occupying Barnes himself at the same moment. To the left the fields of Belgium stretched away to disappear inside a curtain of black smoke, the result of RAF bombing and BEF heavy artillery fire. In front of the curtain small figures moved like the inhabitants of a disturbed anthill, but always the apparently chaotic movement was forward, except in the sector ahead of the tank. They were now perched a good twenty feet above the surrounding countryside and to Barnes' dismay he realized that the embankment was gradually rising all the time the farther south they progressed, the sides growing steeper, making their descent from the railway more difficult every yard they moved forward.