For the Battalion the Somme Battle with its terrible Holocausts, incessant shell fire and continuous slaughter, was at an end, but there was no respite for the weary soldier.
"The Story of the "9th King's" in France"
Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts
He himself, with his lamentable absence of literary style, was wont to declare that while confessedly weak in analogies he was strong in Holocausts.
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc
It was not the blast-effect of a few bombs which created such Holocausts, but the radiations released by the bombs.
"Flight From Tomorrow"
Henry Beam Piper