Serbia must relinquish the fairy tale that its own wartime suffering was equivalent to the devastation it visited on others.

Both instruments were products of a brief moment when, after intense wartime suffering, communities sought a better future by pooling some of their sovereignty in a grander union.

And what were we to think of the Shostakovich Ninth Symphony on Friday, almost a wisecrack in the face of Russia's deep wartime suffering?

Many of those calling for this immediate cease-fire are people of good will whose anguish over the wartime suffering overrides long-term considerations.

For Roger, France was a "land of poverty, a land of wartime suffering, but a land of inner freedom."

And finally, the British believed that Russia, if not forestalled, might actually demand up to 50 per cent of Germany because of her wartime sufferings.

In Germany, many people defend the exhibit as part of an overdue effort to honor the wartime suffering of their grandparents.

The need for German support ensured that the Allies' original determination, to exact vengeance for wartime sufferings, melted away.

He was the very picture of wartime suffering.

There is some melodrama, especially at the story's climax, while the wartime sufferings of people more ordinary than the Kurushimas are muted.