{"product_id":"the-man-in-the-other-trench","title":"The Man in the Other Trench – WW1 Military Fiction Ebook","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrance, 1916. Two snipers. Two trenches. One deadly contest of patience, skill and survival.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSergeant Thomas Vale knows how to hunt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore the war, he tracked deer through the hills of Scotland. Now, on the Western Front, those same skills have made him one of the British Army's most effective snipers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen a new German marksman arrives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBritish soldiers begin dying one by one—officers, sentries and observers picked off with terrifying precision. Vale is ordered to find the man responsible and eliminate him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis opponent is Feldwebel Friedrich Adler, a Bavarian forester and experienced hunter who understands patience, concealment and killing every bit as well as Vale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat begins as a counter-sniper mission becomes something far more personal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross the shattered landscape of No Man's Land, the two men study each other's habits. They build traps, create decoys and wait for the smallest mistake. Each knows that somewhere in the opposite trench is a man looking back through a rifle scope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut the Western Front is about to erupt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs British guns begin the enormous bombardment preceding the \u003cstrong\u003eBattle of the Somme\u003c\/strong\u003e, Vale and Adler's private war is swallowed by something vastly greater. On 1 July 1916, thousands of British soldiers climb from their trenches and advance into a battlefield of barbed wire, machine guns and artillery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe two hunters are no longer simply stalking each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey are fighting to survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd before the day is over, one of them will have to take the final shot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Man in the Other Trench\u003c\/strong\u003e is a gripping First World War military novel of snipers, trench warfare, brotherhood and survival, set against one of the most devastating battles in British military history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers who enjoy \u003cstrong\u003ehistorical military fiction, WWI novels, sniper stories and character-driven battlefield thrillers.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Swan Military Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58631623213400,"sku":null,"price":1.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/8693\/5896\/files\/TheManintheOtherTrenchImage.png?v=1791031498","url":"https:\/\/swanmilitarybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/the-man-in-the-other-trench","provider":"Swan Military Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}