Close range combat with British Indian troops, an offensive and a fighting retreat in Flanders and French units revolting, April through August of 1917 are a crazy time on the front for Ernst Junger and Louis Barthas. Rejoin us in this episode for the most intense combat Junger has faced yet in the muck of Flanders. Barthas, the socialist writes a manifesto for his regiment’s revolt and survives hard bombardments on the slopes of Mont Cornillet. This is Mud and Shells, 1917, part two.

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Sources:

Storm of Steel, Ernst Junger

Poilu, Louis Barthas