Chapter-18 They were on their way to the entrenchments that ringed the town��no shallow, hastily dug trenches, these, but earthworks, breast high, reinforced with sandbags and tipped with sharpened staves of wood.

They were on their way to the entrenchments that ringed the town��no shallow, hastily dug trenches, these, but earthworks, breast high, reinforced with sandbags and tipped with sharpened staves of wood.