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    Episode 10: Regret's Funeral - Part 1
    Episode 10: Regret's Funeral - Part 1
    Episode 10: Regret's Funeral - Part 1
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    Episode 10: Regret's Funeral - Part 1

    By Leigh Barker

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    Soldiers - Season 1: Episode 10: Regret's Funeral – Part 1.

    A Bitesize 1-hour read.

    The assassin, Frieda Glockner, is hunting Regret. She doesn’t always do the dirty work herself, and this is one of those times. Thanks to a love-struck English lieutenant colonel.

    Regret and the lads are trapped on the wrong side of the German lines as they advance on the Allied armies making a last, desperate stand at Ypres.

    To evade the lieutenant colonel’s court martial, Regret must lead the lads into battle again. This time against a battalion that outnumbers them fifty to one.

    The lads should be celebrating the destruction of Big Bertha, instead they are preparing to die.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLeigh Barker
    Release dateApr 10, 2016
    ISBN9781311411150
    Episode 10: Regret's Funeral - Part 1
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    Leigh Barker

    Leigh was born in Dudley in the middle of England. He has been a merchant seaman, a (useless) electronics salesman, a programmer, and a business analyst. And now he is a full-time writer, but that doesn't make him a bad person.He is presently writing 4 series:Clan, following the adventures of Calum Maclean as he tries to avoid the Bonnie Prince but still protect his beloved Highlands.The Hellfire Legacy Series follows US Marine Master Sergeant Ethan Gill and his team as they take on the jobs too hot for other special forces. They go where they're sent; South America, Middle East, Korea, but their most dangerous missions are on US soil.Volume #1: A Whisper of ArmageddonVolume #2: The Hellfire LegacyVolume #3: The Orpheus DirectiveEden, a three-volume series -Trinity is at war with Lucid, the son of Lucifer, and he will do whatever it takes to win. The Archangel Gabriel has an army but he needs more. He needs heroes, but they are few and far between. Which is why he gets Dylan and co. Not too much luck in Heaven then.Volume #1: Eden's Last HeroVolume #2: WinterwoodVolume #3: Requiem for Eden.Soldiers is set in 1914 and follows John Regret and his 12-man squad on their suicidal mission to find and destroy the German howitzer nicknamed Big Bertha. Find it before it drops it's thousand-pound shells on the allied army retreating across France. A seemingly hopeless mission that just cannot fail.Other occasional series include:Anarchy, the 'completely true' stories of men doing what men do when there's nobody to keep them in check. Create mayhem and behave like monkeys on speed.Coffee Break Reads - each issue has 5 stories short enough to read while taking a break from life. A mix of adventure, love, disaster, and fun. All with one thing in common; for a moment they transport the reader to another world.Episode 1 of each Season is free and can be picked up with other free books at:https://leighwbarker.com/my-library/Just copy the link above and paste it into your browser and you're there...

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      Episode 10 - Leigh Barker

      Soldiers

      (Episode 10)

      Regret's Funeral

      (Season Finale - Part 1)

      Copyright 2016 Leigh Barker

      Published by Leigh Barker at Smashwords

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      ISBN: 9781311411150

      Regret’s Funeral

      I’ve got an idea, Lofty said, rolling onto his side so he could see the others. I could nip down there, stick one of them wiv me bayonet, then nick his uniform. He stopped for a moment to refine his plan. Then I could pretend you was me prisoners and we could walk right through all them Germans.

      The others stared at him without speaking. There wasn’t much to say that didn’t involve swearing.

      Regret reached under his hip and tossed a small stone that had been bothering him the whole time they’d been lying on the wooded ridge while the German troops streamed by on the road below. He watched Lofty for a while and toyed with the idea of taking him up on his offer, if only for something to do. Good plan, Lofty, he lied. Couple of flaws in it.

      Lofty beamed at him. Thanks, Sarge. He glanced at Sunshine. See there, mate? The sarge thinks me plans got floors.

      Sunshine looked past him to Regret and back. You know what flaws are, don’t you?

      Yeah. A frown crossed his face. Them things you walk on. They’re good, stops you fallin’ down into the cellar. He waited for Regret to explain.

      Let’s say you go down there and… stick one of them wiv your bayonet.

      Lofty started to sit up, ready for the off.

      Hold on. Regret raised his hand. So you go down there. He pointed at the troops filling the road as far as they could see. Which one you going to stick?

      Lofty edged up to the top of the ridge level with Regret and looked down. A little bugger.

      And the other bigger buggers?

      Lofty frowned again.

      What do you think they’ll be doing while you’re nicking their dead mate’s uniform?

      Lofty sucked in his breath.

      Yeah, Regret said, exactly.

      That’s a flaw, Sunshine said, and patted Lofty’s shoulder. Good plan though, otherwise.

      Ta, mate. Thought it up all by m’self.

      The little idiot’s got a point, though, Chalky said. Much as I like lying in the mud with all these insects eating me nuts, I was hoping to get back to the regiment and have a nice dinner. Before I died of old age and hunger.

      Regret looked again at the troops swarming up the road towards Armentieres. Whatever the Germans were planning, it was going to be big. Problem was they were doing it between their position and the regiment. He’d hoped they’d pass by before dusk, or at least get off the road for supper, but it looked like they were

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