slow-rumbling

Updated: May 16, 2025

Vienna and the waltzes they still were playing there, Berlin and its iron exaltation, slow-rumbling London all the West and the war as we had thought of it for months was, so to speak, on the other side of the earth. We were on the edge of the East now, rolling down into the Balkans, into that tangle of races and revenges out of which the first spark of the war was flung.

Arthur Ruhl - Antwerp to Gallipoli: A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them