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“We forget nothing really. But so long as we have to stay here in the field, the front-line days, when they are past, sink down in us like a stone; they are too grievous for us to be able to reflect on them at once. If we did that, we should have been destroyed long ago. I soon found out this much:—terror can be endured so long as a man simply ducks;—but it kills, if a man thinks about it.”

I didn't know this was going to be WWI yaoi

Although a very slow start, it perfectly captures how useless and frustrating WWI truly was. The anger, the pain, the grief of the soldiers is shown so well. You really do feel like you are with them in the trenches, which makes you love and hate the book all at the same time.