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Described as 'one of the most celebrated of all literary memoirs' about the First World War and used extensively throughout the episode to illustrate the experience of soldiers arriving at and living in the trenches in 1915.

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Described as 'one of the great war memoirs, not just of the First World War, but of all time,' used extensively to illustrate the German soldier's experience of battle, adrenaline, and the surreal horror of combat in 1915.

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Referenced for quoting a French trench journal that describes shelling as 'a form of torture that the soldier cannot see the end of.'

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Referenced as part of Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy, which features the Craiglockhart hospital in Edinburgh where Siegfried Sassoon meets Wilfred Owen.