Eye-Deep In Hell Quotes

“A French officer . . . felt that there was a reverse correlation between xenophobia and proximity to the enemy:
Hatred of the enemy diminished as one passed from the interior to the front, where it tapered still more as one went from staffs to field headquarters, from headquarters to batteries, from batteries to the battalion command post, and finally from there to the infantryman in the trench and observation sap, where it reached its lowest ebb.
Or, as C.E. Mentague put it, rather more tersely: "War hath no fury like a noncombatant.”
― John Ellis, Eye-Deep In Hell: Trench Warfare In World War I