古德明《征服英语》之英语军事故事，古德明，香港英语教育作家，他开了一个《征服英语专栏》，在专栏中专门用英语写了世界近代史上的军事小故事，用英语讲述历史中那些惊心动魄的战争。
屠杀战俘
on 17 december 1944, a german ss panzer division encountered, near the town of malmedy, belgium, a small company of american soldiers. armed with only rifles and other small arms, the americans surrendered to the nazi tank force. after being searched and relieved of weapons, the american prisoners were quickly marched into a field.
one of the few to survive, bill merriken said,"we stood there, hands over head. and then there was a german officer and he picked out a guy i knew. he pulled his pistol up and shot him. and i saw him fall. then that is when machine guns started."
eighty-six american prisoners of war were massacred at malmedy that day. merriken, who had three bullet wounds, two in his back and one in the back of his knee, hid under the bodies of his dead comrades for hours before he was able to make good his escape.
