“In a film, on the news, you watch a war. While in a war, you mostly hear it. Weapons are fired day and night, but only sometimes do you see them fired. As much as images, then, each battle takes on its own sounds.” The NYT on the battle to retake Mosul. It lasted nine months, cost thousands of lives (including civilians), and essentially flattened a large segment of a major city. The Living and the Dead.