A Song for No Man's Land Quotes

“I was going to write down my experiences during the assault, but what’s the point now? It’s all been written before, so many glorified accounts, soldiers, warriors, heroes. No matter how grim a picture I paint, there will always be those who have bright excited eyes, who think War is romantic, exciting, a beast to be tamed.”
― Andy Remic, A Song for No Man's Land

“Where has his humanity gone?
His compassion?
Ha.
Pissed away in shell holes, that's where.”
― Andy Remic, A Song for No Man's Land

“How could one man take praise, take the pats on the back and the medals and the bullshit, when so many of his friends were dying out there in the dark? Unrecognised, without praise, dying alone with their legs blown off or their guts spilling out over shrapnel?
Bainbridge was a hero, but he was alive, and for some reason he held this against himself. The true heroes of the war were the men whose songs went unsung, whose lives were extinguished. The ones who died alone.”
― Andy Remic, A Song for No Man's Land