Translated by Nathalie GAUTHIER
You can see how far this guard stations are from the front line.
Almost all letters written by the poilus and writings made by soldiers coming back from this "hell" talk about these moments, tense with fear, and for which men were often designed to occupy those positions. The nights in small stations. • There are often two or three soldiers with an officer being at a sentinel station, situated several meters or tens of meters in front of the front line (...)