"It has lost its power to charm." "Was there ever a battle like this in the world before ?" said Mr.
Meredith, one evening in mid-April.
"It's such a titanic thing we can't grasp it," said the doctor.

"What were the scraps of a few Homeric handfuls compared to this?
The whole Trojan war might be fought around a Verdun fort and a newspaper correspondent would give it no more than a sentence.

I am not in the confidence of the occult powers"-- the doctor threw Gertrude a twinkle--"but I have a hunch that the fate of the whole war hangs on the issue of Verdun.

As Susan and Joffre say, it has no real military significance; but it has the tremendous significance of an Idea.

If Germany wins there she will win the war.