Charge!

This photo is of German stormtroopers on the Western Front, similar to the scenes described in Chapter Six.

In Chapter six the French army charged the Germans after days of continuous bombing. However, the Germans pushed them back and changed from those being attacked to the attackers. These Germans are on the offensive so, to me, it relates to the part of the book when they first change to attacking instead of retreating. The paragraph that describes the few Frenchmen lagging behind through the initial charge the passage that can correspond with the image.

"A young Frenchman lags behind, he is overtaken, he puts up his hands, in one he still holds his revolver—does he mean to shoot or to give himself!—a blow from a spade cleaves through his face. A second sees it and tries to run farther, a bayonet jabs into his back. He leaps in the air, his arms thrown wide, his mouth wide open, yelling he staggers, in his back the bayonet quivers." (116)

A comparison is a rush of soldiers charging and (although I can't recognize the uniform completely) the dead soldier with a different colored uniform is dead which can be the one from the passage. He was too slow on the retreat and ended up with a bayonet in his back. You can see the smoke from either the shelling or the bombing or poison gas in the background along with other soldiers charging.