Operation Compass

This document is the property of his Britannic Majesty's Government
 Printed for the war cabinet, August 1940
 If a retirement should be necessary
 No attempt should be made to leave small parties
 To defend wells near the coast in this region
 All water supplies between Mersa Matruh and the Alexandria defences
 Must be rendered depotable
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 Operation Compass was well underway
 Scorching sun
 Coarse sand
 A horned desert viper slithers through dust
 Howling winds
 Burning eyes
 World War II, under British Command
 In Egyptian no-man's land
 A silence of the snakes
 Before the battle erupts
 Oil
 Oil
 Oil
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 Oil
 Enemy in sight (enemy in sight)
 Keep low and quiet
 Push forth the Mark VI Light
 Attack!
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 Bleak tanks rumble, bleached bones crumble
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 Fresh cannon fodder, brutally slaughtered
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 Filthy caked crusts of flesh and blood garnish the banks
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 The onslaught prevails
 The desert of death
 As the last man standing falls to his knees
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 Amidst fire and flame
 Something whispers his name
 There, in the distance, like shadows cast a spell
 And black oil erupting like a fountain from hell
 Like a Fata Morgana, a face appears in the geyser of oil
 Red demonic eyes looking down on him
 Then this apogee of hell reverses down the well
 The dead bodies start to twitch in the sand
 Blue lunar wasteland
 The fallen soldiers rise to their feet
 Ghastly winds
 Death's stare
 No man's war
 The undead soar
 Uttering monstrous roars
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 A pack of death closing
 He screams and tries to dig himself in
 Yet cold teeth already gnaw at his skin
 He won the battle, but not the war