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The Last Road Maker

By James Stoddard

World War I soldiers in a trench near Craonne in 1917, with smoke from artillery on the horizon.

Not fifty yards away was a great shell-hole with thirty crosses sticking from it, some barely rising out of the pooled rainwater...

By James Stoddard

World War I soldiers in a trench near Craonne in 1917, with smoke from artillery on the horizon.

"To the legion of the lost one, to the cohort of the damned..."

By James Stoddard

World War I soldiers in a trench near Craonne in 1917, with smoke from artillery on the horizon.

Hodgson looked through his glass again, and an exclamation escaped his lip. His mouth went dry. Behind the German lines, unbelievably enormous, loomed a twisted house...

By James Stoddard

World War I soldiers in a trench near Craonne in 1917, with smoke from artillery on the horizon.

He woke with a gasp. He was lying at the bottom of the deep crater where he and his subordinates had taken refuge...