News at Eleven: There are occasionally fresh flashes

of insight from [T.S.] Eliot, too, though one of the most remarkable--a 1917 letter to the editor on the horror of trench warfare--largely quotes another letter by his soldier brother-in-law, Maurice Haigh-Wood. "Wounded men hanging in agony on the barbed wire, until a friendly spout of liquid fire shrivels them up like a fly on a candle" is also indicative of where the poet of The Waste Land came from.

from Telegraph: The Letters of T S Eliot: review
also The Guardian: 'I cannot go on'

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