A few days later the former militarist [Sgt. Marc Boasson] was recounting to his wife his supreme joy on having been transferred to a non-combatant unit. (It gave him an extension of life of nearly two years.) Later, he puts his finger on the psychological exhaustion felt by all the men at Verdun:
I have changed terribly. I did not want to tell you anything of the horrible lassitude which the war has engendered in me, but you force me to it. I feel myself crushed… I am a flattened man.
Source:
Horne, Alistair. “Danger Signals.” The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916. New York: St. Martin's, 1963. 270. Print.
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