Thanks, Samuel, I'll look that up.
A few pages ago Oberon mentioned the eye-wateringly excellent Pte McAuslan books by George MacDonald Fraser. Even better - especially if you wish to read about war from the perspective of an intelligent, articulate Private soldier, is MacDonald Fraser's "Quartered Safe Out Here" (the title is itself a quote from a previous-generation's spokesman for real people in the military - Rudyard Kipling). One bit I remember is his comparison between the soldiers of his time and the post-war army; as he put it: "[we weren't] professional soldiers, but we were expert soldiers". If you read it, I think you'll agree.