He might very well not be—and if he was dead, Mike would be the one who killed him.He'd deliberately left Jeff's regiment twisting in the wind, and he'd done it for two reasons. The second of those reasons left Mike feeling a little sick to his stomach.The first reason was straightforward: Higgins and his men had kept the Poles in Zielona Góra preoccupied while Mike moved the rest of the division around the city to the south. Once he launched his attack, he thought he could overwhelm the defenders pretty quickly. He'd be attacking from a direction they wouldn't expect and with overwhelming force. The maneuver was tough on the Hangman Regiment, of course, but that was just the chances of war.Hard-boiled, yes. But Mike's other motive had been a lot colder and more ruthless. He was utterly determined that no army under his command would ever again behave the way some of its units had at Świebodzin. That, of course, was the reason he'd formed the Hangman in the first place.But if Mike was a neophyte at organized warfare, he was no stranger to conflict.
