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Heartbreaking account in these pages. “You’ll learn a lot from living through war…There is no beast worse than man. It’s men who kill other men, not bullets. People kill people.”
And from just slightly earlier, “I will never forget the war…The Germans invaded our village…Young and cheerful. With so much noise…”
Dang, word count. It’s a searing account.

Nuanced and challenging. A brilliant cacophony of tragedies and faith. A transcendent anthology of how the forces of history and the state distill to shape every moment of our lives. I'm loving it, but geez is it slow going.