Status Updates From Aftermath: The Remnants of ...

this is such a good read and answered my lingering questions about what's left after a war decades later, but man it's tough. the blurb on the front cover comparing it to hersey's hiroshima is right. however bad you think you know an event was, webster's experiences will make you realize it's such a vast understatement. chapter 2 damn near gave me an existential crisis.

a particular passage I find incredibly harrowing: “before the siege [of verdun] was over, more than a million soldiers had been devoured by the fighting…only 290,000 bodies were ever recovered…more than 710,000 men were simply written off as lost, swallowed by explosions and mud.”

insane statistic to make me stop in my tracks.