Desert boots

Clarks Shoes made the map in Figure 1.4, one of twenty produced for each major product family. This map for desert boots immediately revealed several problem areas ... 

An alarm went unheeded as the General soared up the stairs into the darkened street. The illuminations were low and white, the buildings caged in steel buttresses. This sector of the city seemed oddly deserted. Razum hoisted her over one shoulder and vaulted across the road. His boots stamped up a metal ladder. She heard a door wrenched rudely open, more gunshots ricocheted off an armoured shell. 

Louise stopped at another of the interminable walls and found a gap in the stone to shove her boot toe in. Straddling the top of the wall she could see the aerodrome s perimeter fence two hundred yards away. "Almost there," she told the others cheerfully. The Bytham aerodrome appeared to be deserted. Both hangars were closed up nobody was in the control tower. Away on the other side of the mown field the row of seven cottages used by station personnel were silent and dark. 

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