man-filled

Updated: May 8, 2025

In one week's attack to the north of the city the Germans threw five million shells, the total weight of which was forty-seven thousand tons. Eighty thousand shells rained upon one shallow sector of a thousand yards, and these were so marvellously placed that the crater of one cut into that of its neighbor, pulverizing everything that lived and turning the man-filled trenches into tombs.

E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell - Italy at War and the Allies in the West