Big Bertha

““Bread-and-breakfast,” Big Bertha repeated, making sure everyone heard.”

Simon & Schuster: Something Unpredictable

“He thus casually acquired a hundred thousand dollars’ worth of Corot, Delacroix, Forain, Gauguin, Ingres, and Manet for the British, and managed to get a Cezanne for himself: Big Bertha was shelling Paris and prices were pleasantly depressed.”

Simon & Schuster: The Worldly Philosophers

“Military annals remember Big Bertha as a weapon crucial to Germany during World War I, a sort of Howitzer on wheels.”

Simon & Schuster: Humor for a Sister’s Heart

“This shell, which had soared twenty-four miles above the earth before descending, was the first of 367 projectiles fired at the French capital over the next four and a half months by a gun the Allies called Big Bertha and the Germans the Paris Gun.”

Castles of Steel