wierpz

Updated: April 30, 2025

I long worked on the idea that the line from Ivangorod to Cholm was a double line a matter of some importance last July. I have since found that it was single. A few weeks ago I suggested that there was difficulty in moving a great body of men rapidly across the Upper Wierpz. Yet the movement, when it was made, might fairly be described as rapid.

C. Creighton Mandell - Hilaire Belloc: The Man and His Work