“Men were squashed. Cut in two or divided from top to bottom. Blown into showers; bellies turned inside out; skulls forced into the chest as if by a blow from a club.”

“You eat beside the dead; you drink beside the dead, you relieve yourself beside the dead and you sleep beside the dead.”

“To die from a bullet seems to be nothing; parts of our being remain intact; but to be dismembered, torn to pieces, reduced to pulp, this is the fear that flesh cannot support and which is fundamentally the great suffering of the soldier." "I 

"I saw a man drinking avidly from a green scum-covered marsh, where he lay, his black face downward in the water, a dead man lying on his stomach and swollen as if he had not stopped filling himself with water for days."