'How do you make a break for armour to go through? Tell me, please.'
'First you fight to take a town that controls all the main roads. Call the town St. Lo. Then you have to open up the roads by taking other towns and villages. The enemy has a main line of resistance, but he cannot bring up his divisions to counter-attack because the fighter-bombers catch them on the roads. Does this bore you? It bores the hell out of me.'
'It does not bore me. I never heard it said understandably before.'
'Thank you,' the Colonel said. 'Are you sure you want more of the sad science?'
'Please,' she said. 'I love you, you know, and I would like to share it with you.'
'Nobody shares this trade with anybody,' the Colonel told her. 'I'm just telling you how it works. I can insert anecdotes to make it inte
