Translator: Lyubov Pilaeva.
Pick up the book " Soldiers on the battlefield of Another World" While marching across France in 1944, the American soldier Leroy Stewart didn’t think twice about death or glory - he finished school lately, and once again he said. This is why physical discomfort and constant insecurity caused the daily lives of millions of military personnel during the Second World War.
In the book “Brood of War,” the American historian Mary Louise Roberts proposes a different view of the Other World, focusing not on a description of strategy and battles, but on the “somatic history” of the front – history. Based on the memoirs of those who participated in the battles of Normandy, the Apennines and the Ardennes, she learned how the soldier’s body suddenly became both the main instrument of the war and its most devastating victim.. The light of the battle is revealed through the sounds of the warriors: the sounds and smells of the battlefield, the taste of rations, the brood, the cold and the dampness of the front line.. The author reveals how soldiers learned to hear different types of artillery, how life in the trenches caused illnesses, why the wounded were respected with vengeance, and how the ever-present presence of the dead contributed to knowledge.
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4 In the struggle for survival, the desire for survival was also based on the intuitive sense. In Mignano, Italy, the sleepy William Koontz was awakened on the first night of the night by the rhythmic sounds of a shovel - his comrade was digging a new trench a meter away. “I was a little angry, because we had to move field telephones and radio equipment,” said Kunz.. – He explained that I had a dream, so my mother told him to move to another place! I no longer respect that he has been fighting on the front line for a long time." For two years, artillery shelling destroyed the fortified trench159. Most sense of feeling - a sense of feeling, aka “things are wrong” - often hijacked soldiers on the front line. Fighters who listened to their instincts often recited the power of life.
Those same secrets also allowed the soldiers to suffer their death. Although the paratrooper Donald Burgett felt that he had to believe in the battle, he had several conversations in Bastogne, as he said in his opinion: “The perception of death in battle is more accurate.”. “I couldn’t bear to realize that I would become even worse before the end of the day,” said archer Stanley Smith. “Call this before the feelings or the others.”. And in truth, on that very day, when I was injured and forcibly survived. The British infantryman John Thorpe wrote to the schodennik on the 15th of June 1944: “This day is celebrated among others. I feel like this is the last day" So it happened; Thorpe was carried from the battlefield with serious injuries, and never returned to the front.. “This coming year, a few hundred miles away, there’s something checking on me in my name... I feel it. " Burns about the Italian front160. John T. Jones was just like, “I’ve heard that there’s a lot of trash around here,” on March 30, 1945, on the day that he actually recovered from the shrapnel wound.. Before I died, Eda Wadd Ralph Shaps found him crying in the trench and cheering, even as he became a “happy lad”. As he explained, he sighed, because “my heart senses that tomorrow will come a hard time”. Those before them appeared to the prophets. It seems that Jack Reeder's friend Joe Bonnaci went ahead and said unconvincedly: “Reeder, this is our day.”. Axis and everything! " I died in five years. When the British glider pilot Bovi Tracey said to his friend Sid Carpenter: “I wish I could treat my squad and little daughter once again,” Carpenter began singing that they will inevitably live and soon turn home. The friend’s words never pleased Tracey, and without dying 161.
If before the misfortunes there was no sense of death, the stench hung in the soldiers on the front line of deep unrest. As the Germans stormed the booths near Belgium, Rex Wynfield remembered his dream, which he had in Ypres, in which time he was shot in the throat. Pressing, after thinking about what is going on with him in real life: “I am afraid of death and I can’t get anything out of it.”. In fact, the soldiers who ran behind Wingfield shot him in the throat - this time162.
Most sensitively, like five others, helped the soldiers to bring meaning to those who were with them on the front line. Even when the war was in full swing, the hunters went to great lengths to soothe the fear that was eating away at their souls.. Linking your death to a specific date recreated the endless sequence of days from beginning to end. " It’s time to take the trouble to set the date? " The transfer of powerful death was inspired by the special combat history of the soldier, whose role in the war, giving its form and sense. Even more important, knowing that your day has come gave the illusion of control. Since the front line was a lottery, it was a little helpful to choose your lottery number.
5 And then it happened to kiss the dying spirits. " It’s the insensible, lifeless look of a person’s widely flattened empty eyes, which is already the case before everything,” said Net Frenkel164. Smislov’s picture of the battle was already so depressing that sometimes the soldiers simply went out of tune. One American infantryman remembered how, in the hour of shelling, he began to coward and retreat, and then hit his head on a tree: “I wasted all my strength. I stopped the sounds a little. I don’t remember exactly what happened, but I know that I was too old and killed a soldier who came out of a tank with both hands shot. I remember how I reminded you, and then it was dark, I don’t remember anything. Perhaps I am devoid of God"
For which soldier, between the loss of hearing and the loss of reason, standing as a sign of jealousy. Vin shows us the vital role of small organs in supporting. “Fighting fever” or “Guardian hysteria,” as the British called this camp, was the legacy of the supernatural stimulation of the organs of the sensitive. During the First Light War, doctors called it “projectile shock.”. British psychiatrist G. Pamer explained this change in the soldier’s condition as follows: “The central nervous system brings him to this stage, and in this stage the state of vague dissociation can develop”166. The fighters themselves called this stupor “fortunes like bombs”; Peter Ryder described it as “knowing nothing, getting over nothing, and forgetting about insecurity”167.
The signal indicator of this would be an empty glance. At Normandy, sapper Ned Petty attacked a group of eighty-five soldiers who spent three years in battle. At the beginning of these battles, the bird had six hundred. “When the soldiers rose to their feet, I thought: what’s wrong with them. The stench just stood there, blinding the eyes. All the brutes from head to toe stood limply, their bottoms were fast asleep." After a protracted battle in Italy, Morris Curington looked at the luster to take a shower and shuddered: “I found myself growing a brutish and long beard, but the mirror showed me as an old man.”. I looked at others and saw the same thing in their eyes" “Wonder in the eyes of the hunters - you can tell how much war you smell,” wrote Bill Malden. Towards the hour of the Battle of the Bulge, Edward Arn exclaimed to an old friend from the initial camp of recruits: “Beck was getting angry, his eyes were widening, he was chanting - clearly in the state of complete shock.”. “Those who have been at the front line after intense stress, lack of sleep and the threat of death,” said Ralph Shapps, “we often have the appearance of a zombie: wobbly eyes, congestion and tiredness to.
The breadth of combat activity reminds us of the fact that human bodies suffered greatly from the extreme violence at the front.. The noises, smells and sights of the battlefield gradually (or over time) lost their place and meaning. If the organs were sensitive, the soldiers became over-corrupted. It is no longer possible to orient yourself in space, without the need to be removed from the battlefield. Removing from the noise, currants and killings, the soldiers began to cheer up. No matter. Ale first to get angry, under the hour of being in the ranks, they seemed to be their closest friends. Accurate interpretation of artillery sounds allowed a soldier to distinguish himself from another, take a position on the battlefield, and go into hiding in case of emergency. The sounds of suffering indicated that the battle was over. Instinct, " The closeness of the students also created a spirit of camaraderie. By sharing special sentiments and giving them a collective meaning, the Infantry developed a culture subsumed by the culture of their commanders. Scargs were literally recreated at the manifesto of collective goodness. More stinking, more hungry than the sufferer, no less loved companionship; Von created yogo.