High explosive

p 599, wood-cut, Hermes, 84 x 121 mm

The centre of an explosion.

p 599 [tr ed p 608] - 'Half a minute later (my preference for six-inch fuses!) just as I tumbled into the Turkish redoubt, the eight hundred pounds of stuff exploded in one burst, and the black air became sibilant with flying stones.'

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