I believe Harvey Allen does respect his enemy (German Soldiers), because he describes their living conditions in depth saying nothing negative. He sounds like he doesn’t really have any favorite side that he is there to serve his duty and that’s it. He describes front “those rotten woods were filled with dead horses, dead men, the refuse, excrement and garbage of armies.” That it is literally alive with pus, going in to great detail that it is a disgusting place that no one wants to be in. Then he describes the German trenches. The graves are very well mad with crosses made out of fresh wood and the mound of dirt beautifully spaded. They were decorated with flowers and a board with an epitaph. The trenches also were nicely decorated with “railings
