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again, this time with a mortar battery.
We were on our way with two army cars
with two crews to reinforce the infantry,
heading back into the gloom where we
had yesterday emerged from battle and
where I had drunk greenish water with
small fry in it, and laughed myself silly
as I remembered the birthday.
Again we turned off the highway,
through the massive puddle, past the
anti-tank platoon’s house and the site
hut, where Korobok had been stripped to
the waist and shaving in a piece of
mirror propped on a plank. I wanted to
say hello to Vasya, but there was no sign
of him. Maybe I could have picked up
those trousers.
The cars stopped when we reached