Slaughter at Civetot

"As we entered the town there were corpses everywhere. A sea of naked body parts: heads severed and gawking, limbs cut off and piled like wood, blood drenching the parched earth, men and women hacked up like diseased stock, torsos naked and disembowelled, heads charred and roasted, hung up on spears. Red crosses smeared over all the walls in blood". - James Patterson, The Jester, Headline London 2003