Read a book about a soldier�s time on the Eastern front, �The Forgotten Soldier�. It was okay but monotonous and redundant. I don�t mean to trivialize the experience at all but the book could be outlined thusly:

It�s really hot and dusty.
There sure are a lot of Russians.
We mow them down by the thousand and another thousand show up.
They have a lot of artillery.

It�s really cold here.
There sure are a lot of Russians.
We mow them down by the thousand and another thousand show up.
They have a lot of artillery.

It�s really, really cold here .
We�re all freezing our asses off.
There sure are a whole lot of Russians.
We mow them down by the thousand and another thousand show up.
They have a whole lot of artillery.

It�s really hot and dusty.
We�re all really hungry.
There sure are a sh*tload of Russians.
We mow them down by the thousand and another thousand show up.
They have a whole lot of artillery.

It�s really, really f***ing cold!
We�re all freezing our asses off.
We�re really hungry.
There sure are a hell of a lot of Russians.
We mow them down by the thousand and another thousand show up.
They sure have a hell of a lot of artillery.

And so on for several hundred pages.


Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery.
Hit the target, all else is twaddle!