A Snap Shot of War from the Diaries and Letters of Generals and Soldiers

Generals mostly study war from a distance. The abstraction of soldiers on a map, and pawns on a chess board, makes them oblivious to the individual suffering.

“Pierre Paul Antoine Minaul who served in the French Army during the First World War wrote a letter to his wife, ‘My dearest little wife: 24 Oct. 1914. Lacking all other paper, I must send one of the…