Our man Boxy has been a busy boy lately. Seems like all the World's Great & Good want to bother him for his Pearls of Wisdom! But today we have something from some twerp called Peter Dutton...
And when night arrives, one of those scorching, howling, bleeding nights, the dogs plunge into the Volga and swim desperately to gain the other bank. The nights of Stalingrad are a terror for them. Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure.
German Lieutenant writing home from Stalingrad October 1942