"In London I had happened to run into an old American solider: Phill Sinott of the 69th Infantry Division, once a machine-gunner, now retired in San Francisco. For hours he had told me about the workaday war for the average Allied soldier: brief periods of incredible fear, a few skirmishes, then months of boredom. For him the war consisted of either 'being bored to death or shitting your pants in fear.' There was no middle ground." (Geert Mak, In Europe: Travels through the twentieth century, 2008, p. 556)
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