Only the genius of the race, working in the very strongholds of that Kultur, can split it open and release new forces and aspirations.
"Command"
William McFee
In their northern strongholds this noble family lived in stately style, and frequently figured on the battle-field, and took their share in events which make up the history of the country.
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews
I have described in this book the completeness of that destruction and its uncanny effect upon our senses as we travelled over the old No Man's Land through hedges of barbed wire and across the enemy's trenches into his abandoned strongholds like Gommecourt and Serre, and then into open country where German troops had lived beyond our gun-fire in French villages still inhabited by civilians.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs