My dad had us watch war movies from a very young age, but I remember him constantly picking them apart. He had been in every war since Vietnam, and he enjoyed the Hollywood take, but he always critiqued the little stuff, like the haircuts, uniforms, firearms, and so on.
It wasn’t until I saw films like Apocalypse Now or Full Metal Jacket (in the theaters as a child no less) that the full impact dawned on me.
War is hell, and often the further back in history you go, the worse it gets.
In my story Eye Deep in Hell, I did everything from consulting with war historians, reading historical accounts, and researching letters from the era. All in an attempt to portray trench warfare’s misery and primal cruelty in The Great War. With a little cosmic horror mixed in, of course!

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The corpse of a soldier decays in the trenchs of World War 1