million-sided

Updated: May 2, 2025

And, as I stared out at misty trees and hedgerow I began as it were to sense a grimness in the very air the million-sided tragedy of war; behind me the weeping girl, before me and looming nearer with every mile, the Somme battle-front. At a table hard by a group of clear-eyed subalterns were chatting and laughing over breakfast, and in their merriment I, too, rejoiced.

Jeffery Farnol - Great Britain at War