What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic a...nd acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralisation and disorder on the part of the inferior ... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The spectacle of misery grew in its crushing volume. There seemed to be no end to the houses full of hunted starved children. Chil...dren with dysentery, children with scurvy, children at every stage of starvation.... We learned to know that the barometer of starvation was the number of children deserted in any community.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »