"It's an unfortunate fact of war that, inevitably, innocent civilians are killed," Mr. Rumsfeld said.
"It is hard to watch," Fiennes' citation went on, "because the fact of war is and should be unbearable.
"Art reflects with great empathy the pity of the situation, the fact of war," says Keenlyside. "Whenever I'm involved in Britten's marvellous, majestic War Requiem, or the requiems by Fauré, Duruflé or Verdi, does it make any difference?
But the cruel facts of war and prejudice are never far from its mind.
In "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," this strange country feels like an appropriate, and deserved, refuge from the grim facts of war.
(If?) Airing the gruesome facts of war — "that's not the business we're in," he said, in his characteristic Sleepytime-tea tones.
Yet for all the particularity, these are the generic facts of war, not very different from those chronicled by Homer almost 3,000 years ago.
But what makes this book so disconcerting is that while Moran tries to be true to history, he also opens up dizzying questions about the stories we share nowadays and their roots in the facts of war and its consequences.
But all the morbid facts of war - the killing, maiming, terrorising - go on every day and night in the east.
There was only that one war we kids heard about then, and it was the "Big War," the "Good War," the "Second World War," as they called it in our history books, which seemed to me to gloss over the sad fact of the war just before it, the war that was meant to end all wars.
The first part of the film, called "Nuremberg and the Germans," focusses on denial — on the denial, at the Nuremberg trials, of responsibility on the part of officials, most of whom were in fact convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and on the ongoing denial by many Germans, at the time of the filming, of responsibility for the crimes committed by Germans under the Nazi regime.
