steelmantled

Updated: May 24, 2025

I remember foolishly mumbling something to the silent man riding next to me, something about the power of recuperation of youth, about the comparative harmlessness of the pointed, steelmantled rifle bullets which on account of their terrific percussion make small clean wounds and rarely cause splintering of the bone or blood poisoning.

Fritz Kreisler - Four Weeks in the Trenches: The War Story of a Violinist