In the darkness he dimly heard the sounds of several German aeroplane engines revving up and then fading off in the distance. Blinking eyes in the darkness for a few moments to orientate himself, Jake"s nostrils took in the dank smell and felt the wet coldness of a strange environment. Lying on something hard and rough he could see absolutely nothing in the blackness surrounding him. But he could feel the pain beginning to radiate across the right side of his face. Lifting a hand to touch his jaw he heard the rattle of the heavy chains and felt their weight wrapped around his wrists. And then he remembered.
A German soldier had used the butt of his rifle and hit him square in the jaw after he had said something which the general took umbrage over. Smiling, and wincing in pain from the eff
