Key quotes

• 'Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence'
• 'Slowly our ghosts drag home'
• 'Our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knive us'
• 'For love of God seems dying'
• 'Is it that we are dying?'
• 'What are we doing here?'
• 'But nothing happens' (repeated)
• 'Air that shudders black with snow'
• 'Pale flakes with fingering stealth'
• 'We turn back to out dying'
• 'Worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous'
• 'Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles'
• 'Flowing flakes that flock, pause, and renew'
• 'All their eyes are ice'