While Chapter Four introduced the reader to life on the front lines, chapter six describes in agonizing detail what it is like to hold the line from the enemy. As the soldiers head towards the front lines, they pass a large stack of coffins. Tjaden remarks that they are set aside for him and his comrades. Such jokes are par for the course as the 150 men of the second company make their way toward the trenches that lie on the front lines. Upon arriving, they hear the incessant rolling of reinforcements to the enemy lines on the other side of No Man's Land.
Baumer explains that only chance keeps anyone alive on the front lines. He recalls a time when we left on dugout to visit another. Upon returning, the first was destroyed......
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