sniper-in-chief

Updated: June 24, 2025

An iron door had slammed down the corridors of the sky and the hamlet into which we were just going was blotted out by black smoke, which came up from its center as though its market-place had opened up and vomited out infernal vapors. "A big shell that!" said one man, a tall, lean-limbed officer, who later in the war was sniper-in-chief of the British army.

Philip Gibbs - Now It Can Be Told