• The cover for Rapid Fire is a black and white image of a soldier either falling or jumping to the ground as a explosion goes off in the background near a large artillery gun.

Rapid Fire: Report of the Army Command

Rapid Fire: Report of the Army Command

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Rapid Fire: Report of the Army Command

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By Edlef Koppen
Paperback

Rapid fire: The battery becomes a machine. The “rapid fire” command causes the arms of six gunners in a battery of six guns to tear open the breech six times in sixty seconds with the precision of six machine levers.
Rapid fire: The men’s fury is channeled into the guns. Six cold metal barrels toll the death knell six times in sixty seconds. The machine thirsts for blood . . .

Adolf Reisiger, a young student full of youthful curiosity, enlists in the German Field Artillery at the outbreak of World War I. But the war he imagined quickly dissolves into mud, blood, and the grinding machinery of industrialized death. His journey through the battlefields reveals a society — and a generation — irrevocably shattered.

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