shaft-heads

Updated: July 16, 2025

It was by that listening instrument, more perfect than the enemy's, that we had beaten him, and by the grim determination of those underground men of ours, whose skin was the color of the chalk in which they worked, who coughed in the dampness of the caves, and who packed high explosives at the shaft-heads hundreds of tons of it for the moment when a button should be touched far away, and an electric current would pass down a wire, and the enemy and his works would be blown into dust.

Philip Gibbs - Now It Can Be Told