Here is war in the aggregate—war as it brewed and as it is being fought on nearly every world battlefront; war as it knocks the daylights out of bomb-pitted capitals and tiny villages; war as it is fought in London pubs and everywhere that people gather to talk it over.
Beattie writes here of the humanities as well as the inhumanities of war. He gives you the overtones of the war in the incisive style of a true reporter who is more concerned with what he sees than with what he thinks about it.