Skulls, bones, helmets, rifle parts in a trench at Verdun, a ravine of death.
La Defense de Verdun - Le Ravin de la Mort - Une tranchéeEdit SommerThe Defense of Verdun - The Ravine of Death - A trench
"The weather is fine here. It is sad to think about death when you're in good health. What's the good of it all? What's the point of the wholesale wiping out of masses of decent fellows who only want to live peacefully with their families? It's the madness, the wickedness, and the idiocy of a minority which is oppressing the masses—set of sheep that we are!"
A soldier's letter, one of two quoted by Michel Corday, a senior civil servant in the French government in his diary entry for May 10, 1916. Corday observed that, 'the newspapers have printed only the heroic soldiers' letters.'
The Paris Front: an Unpublished Diary: 1914-1918 by Michel Corday, page 164, copyright © 1934, by E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publisher: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publication date: 1934
1916-05-10, 1916, May, letter, Ravine of Death
