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Updated: May 24, 2025

All night long, golden and red and yellow streams of flame or the sudden jagged flash of an explosion lit up the black smoke of burning buildings and fields in the valley, or showed the white puff-like low clouds of the bursting shrapnel. Not for an instant did the roar diminish, not for a second was the kindly veil of night left unrent by a fissure of vengeful flame.

- The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 12): The War Begins, Invasion of Belgium, Battle of the Marne