Opinion: What gets lost in the 'Big Picture'
Scott Simon remarks on how details during times of war, from personal stories, capture the true devastation of it.
by Scott Simon
Nov 18, 2023
1 minute
Martha Gellhorn, the great war correspondent, once wrote in the British literary journal Granta:
"In war, I never knew anything beyond what I could see and hear.
"The Big Picture always exists," she said,
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