feindesland

Updated: May 19, 2025

Not inches, but yards, rods, two city blocks almost, of microscopic type; columns of names, arranged in the systematic German way lightly wounded, badly wounded schwer verwundet gefallen. Some have died of wounds tot some dead in the enemy's country in Feindesland gefallen. Rank on rank, blurring off into nothingness, endless files of type, pale as if the souls of the dead were crowding here.

Arthur Ruhl - Antwerp to Gallipoli: A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them