Mr. Tripp tells his tale in an austere style: men burned to blackened lumps, limbs blown off, decayed corpses floating eerily in stagnant pools, whitened skeletons heaped in piles...

Mr. Tripp tells his tale in an austere style: men burned to blackened lumps, limbs blown off, decayed corpses floating eerily in stagnant pools, whitened skeletons heaped in piles...