What amazes me about the anecdotes from the various wars, WWI & WWII in particular, is the matter-of-fact way in which they are told. It all seems almost ordinary and routine. My father wrote a short piece at the time of his experiences in Burma and it came across as just a few days of doing what he was paid for. This included his being wounded by a Jap (sic) sniper and carted off to be 'patched up'. It's only Hollywood, Elstree, Ealing and the rest that give war the Wow! factor.