abancourt

Updated: May 6, 2025

I still see the jagged ruins of the little village of Abancourt totally destroyed in two days' bombardment standing sharp against the sky, on a ridge which looks over the Sensée valley; the shell-broken road in which the car most complaisant of cars and most skilful of drivers! finally stuck; and those hastily dug shelters on the road-side in one of which I suddenly noticed a soldier's coat and water-bottle lying just as they had been left two months before.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Fields of Victory