The Los Angeles Times described this narrative as a "heartbreaking account" and moreover spoke of a strong indictment of "the tactical politics that led to the invasion".

There is an account, cool - and heartbreaking because of it - of Ms. Munro's hard-working father.

Mrs. Clinton talks about people who were denied care for lack of insurance, including one heartbreaking account of a child who died of meningitis as a result.

Read the heartbreaking account of Scottish fishing folk devastated by the Highland Clearances in The Silver Darlings (1941).

Most affecting is his heartbreaking account of the 27,000 American and Filipino soldiers who were "shot, bayoneted, beheaded, tortured, bludgeoned or starved to death" during the infamous Bataan Death March and its aftermath.

Accompanied by portraits of Mr. Michals's young subject in period military uniform, Whitman's heartbreaking accounts nonetheless strike a clearly contemporary chord.

The heartbreaking accounts of lives lost and of those struggling to survive remind us of our common humanity and the need to reach out to people in need.

"Dancing at Ciro's" has more than its share of dish, but its real substance lies in the heartbreaking account of a badly broken family.

And longtime devotees still remember Mr. Barry's handful of serious columns, including a heartbreaking account of his mother's suicide several years ago.

The poems in "Birthday Letters," Mr. Hughes's often heartbreaking account of his relationship with Plath, were written much more simplistically, as straightforward narratives that behave like prose.