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    Where the Sabots Clatter Again
    Where the Sabots Clatter Again
    Where the Sabots Clatter Again
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    Where the Sabots Clatter Again

    By Katherine Shortall

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    DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Where the Sabots Clatter Again" by Katherine Shortall. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigiCat
    Release dateSep 16, 2022
    ISBN8596547326021
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      Where the Sabots Clatter Again - Katherine Shortall

      Katherine Shortall

      Where the Sabots Clatter Again

      EAN 8596547326021

      DigiCat, 2022

      Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info

      Table of Contents

      THE BRIDE OF NOYON.

      LITTLE GRAINS OF SAND

      VAUCHELLES.

      THE BRIDE OF NOYON.

      Table of Contents

      A returning flush upon the plain. Streaks of color across a mangled landscape: the gentle concealment of shell hole and trench. This is what one saw, even in the summer of 1919. For the sap was running, and a new invasion was occurring. Legions of tender blades pushed over the haggard No Man's Land, while reckless poppies scattered through the ranks of green, to be followed by the shyer starry sisters in blue and white. Irrepressibly these floral throngs advanced over the shell torn spaces, crowding, mingling and bending together in a rainbow riot beneath the winds that blew them. They were the vanguard.

      In the midst of the reviving fields lay Noyon: Noyon, that gem of the Oise, whose delicate outline of spires and soft tinted roofs had graced the wide valley for centuries. Today the little city lay blanched and shapeless between the hills, as all towns were left that stood in the path of the armies. The cathedral alone reared its battered bulk in the midst; a resisting pile, its two grim and blunted towers frowning into the sky. Nobly Gothic through all the shattering, the great church rose out of the wreckage, with flying buttresses still outspread like brooding wings to the dead houses that had sunk about her.

      But Noyon was not dead. We of the Red Cross knew that. We knew that in cellars and nooks of this labyrinth of ruin already hundreds of hearts were beating. On this calm September morning the newly cleared streets resounded

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