selectmen's

Updated: May 29, 2025

Think of the Selectmen's office in any New England village and the picture will be accurate: a bare room, a desk, one chair, a telephone, nothing on the walls but two maps, one of the military zone, one of the actual front and positions of the Verdun fighting. A bleak room, barely heated by the most primitive of stoves.

Frank H. (Frank Herbert) Simonds - They Shall Not Pass