Word: chianti
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...about were black, well-made "Jerry cans" (for fuel), a dozen of which we collected and filled with water when we learned that the Nazis had oiled many of the wells farther west. Old tins of British-made "Kiwi" shoe polish lay side by side with empty bottles of Chianti. Pressed into the sand was a letter to a German soldier from his father in Düsseldorf...
East of this no man's land, headed in the general direction of the Chianti bottle, a squad of British sappers dragged themselves across the sand, pulling the string of German land mines. Behind them the 51st Highlanders squatted in slit trenches, awaiting the signal to advance another 50 yards. To the rear, British 25-pounders roared, spewing their shells across the line into the darker, hostile horizon...
...moonlit, light-lanced sky, Allied planes ranged back & forth, their routes marked by bursting bombs behind the Axis front line. West of the Chianti bottle the Axis armies ponderously gave ground...
...Cairo, 140 miles east of the Chianti bottle, General Sir Harold Alexander, Commander of the Middle East, pored over reports telling the story of the battle. He sat in close communion with a thin, jug-eared man, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder. Upon these two depended the fate of Allied power in the Mediterranean. In their strategical structure, Egypt is the keystone...
...Chianti bottle in No Man's Land was in the middle of vast and incalculable affairs...