This book is about WAR--not the causes and results not the planning and the campaigns not the artillery and the bombs. It is about the heinous crimes committed by the combatants the horrifying experiences of civilians the devastation of cities and villages the killing and the dying the glory leading to revulsion and guilt and the assimilation of suffering that either ends in death or in the triumph of the soul. It looks at the struggle of the church to remain faithful and the servants of the chu