A wolf can howl at the moon. A plane's engine roars.they heardterrible growing howlsroaring sound outside
and saw planes approaching from theeastwest
From how you described the day before they saw some Heinkels like these:They looked exactly like the planes they’d seen all these days so they knew those weren’t Soviet planes.
And now you must be speaking of Stukas like these:
You can't circle up and down. A plane usually takes a wide loop after the attack to take another pass.circling up and down towards the groundina couple of miles from the village
Theaimtarget of the bombers was hidden behind the thick woodsboundingencircling the villageThey saw the smoke only now? Not during the attack?When the bombersleftwere finally gone, everyone saw columns of thick black smoke rising above the trees
the smell ofburnt outexplosives with thicknotestinges of oily smoke that was rising from a few trucksseized withengulfed with fireWho were these people, where were they going? Did anyone of the villagers knew this? Did anyone tried to guess anything about it?‘Civilians!’ Peter whispered feeling a desperatefurryfury rising up from deep inside. ‘Theydestroyed thekill civilians!’
If they were the refugees they should be fleeing away from the front (to the East). Here a logic inconsistency: if they were fleeing East then their village was situated to the West of the place our protagonist was at the moment. This way they should have passed Shumovka on their way. If their village was located to the East of Shumovka then the attack couldn't have taken place so near.
Out of a corner of an eyeIn the corner of his vision he noticed other villagers do the samestill pale from the shockwith a bleedinglimp insteadstump in the place of her right legHow can you tear off your belt? unbuckled, unfastenedHetore offhis belt
limp is a verb:on thelimpslightly above
limp intransitive verb \ˈlimp\
: to walk in a slow and awkward way because of an injury to a leg or foot
: to go or continue slowly or with difficulty
limb maybe?
to stop the bleedingOh my, what did they do to the wounded? Did they bury the dead?When they came back to the village
nothing could save them from being torn apart bythe explosiveexplosions or buried alive under the rubbleof the housesThis should be said earlierThe villagerscouldmanaged to save some of the victims of the aerial attack, including that woman he helped
some of the villagers volunteered tolook after themnurseSome of the victims looked really terrible; they were limping, bleeding and groaningdis·gust noun \di-ˈskəst, dis-ˈgəst also diz-\ (Отвращение)Peter was astonished at the words of Ann that these were not considered severely damaged. He imagined a picture of a really severe wound and shuddered indisgusthorror.
: a strong feeling of dislike for something that has a very unpleasant appearance, taste, smell, etc.
: annoyance and anger that you feel toward something because it is not good, fair, appropriate, etc.
What I don't understand is - Peter saw them all. How could he miss the heavily wounded?
Later, when they were sitting in silence in Ann’s house, unable to even look at the food,let alonemuch less eating it Peter asked:Actually they could. All the piliot sees is the truck and some people inside.‘on the other hand, they could notoverlookconfuse the women and children with soldiers.
‘Do you think when the groundforcestroops will behave differently from what we've seen today ?’



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