eating double rations and yet double ragsz are against the law in the german army, punishes, infractions very severely and how was the field cook convinced to give them double rations? i asked that question -- not a single person out of hundreds and hundreds of the best readers and finally i gave it as an open book and they still couldn't answer it and well, they got double rations because the other unit was going to eat there had been wiped out to a man, and when the cook denied them the extra sausage and potatoes, one sharp guy, the narrator in the book, says, yes, but the most sev...