From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.
-- Philip Gibbs
   
Philip Gibbs   Name:
Philip Gibbs
Type:
Journalist
Nationality:
British
Birth:
May 1, 1877
Death:
March 10, 1962
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