sapigny

Updated: May 19, 2025

There is nothing good for him in the desert of the Somme. Bapaume is not really there, though it be marked on his maps; it is only a wilderness of slates and brick. Peronne looks like a city a long way off, but when you come near it is only the shells of houses. Pozière, Le Sars, Sapigny, are gone altogether. And all is Dead Sea fruit in a visible desert.

Baron Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany - Tales of War

Soldiers came to see him from their billets all down the Arras road, from Ervillers and from Sapigny, and from the ghosts of villages back from the road, places that once were villages but are only names now.

Baron Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany - Tales of War