A snippet from 9 AD: The Crossing of the Rhine by Tom Kratman

A snippet from 9 AD: The Crossing of the Rhine by Tom Kratman

9 A.D.: The Crossing of the Rhine, Copyright © 2025, Thomas Kratman

Dedication: For my friend, General Claudio Graziano, of Turin Italy, and, further, of Italy’s fine Alpine Troops.  22 November, 1953-17 June 2024

Chapter One

[W]ho would relinquish Asia, or Africa, or Italy, to repair to Germany, a region hideous and rude, under a rigorous climate, dismal to behold or to manure [to cultivate] unless the same were his n...