Yet the papers catalogue in painful detail just how much blood and treasure were wasted through profligacy, corruption and poor planning.

Tense and well-plotted, it's packed with painful detail about real poverty.

The novel details how he feels about ongoing events in often painful detail.

For the next five hours he poured out the painful details of his life to a man he had denounced for so long.

I have related these painful details because from this incident must be dated our disorganization and misfortunes.