... village destroyed, and to see one's sisters taken away, and not to know what is to happen next. For us old women it was not so bad. We are too old to weep, having wept toomuch. We thought ... We go to see how our men live in these places, but do not stay with them. We go from one battle to another as doctors from one case to another, feeling the pulse of it, watching its symptoms, ... concentration for theold form of battle attack upon entrenched positions, fortified hills and strong natural fortresses, defended bymassed guns as before the battles of the Somme. For miles on the way to...