Sept 1941-German platoon resting after bloody counterattack east of
Dneiper river.
A padre serving with one of the infantry divisions wrote later that
month:
this frightful land. Three more letters to write to add to the total
of those which I have written already in this terrible war. The
deleted names of the fallen are now more numerous in my pocket diary
than the names of the living. My parish is bleeding to death on the
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