Many people do not realize how greatly war impacts the soldiers who fight in it. When the Allies were beginning to eradicate the Nazis in World War Two, they started using large amounts of tanks to achieve their goals. Trevor Greenwood, who is a British tank commander in the ninth Royal Tank Regiment, begins his service at D-Day and continues to assist the British cause until Germany surrenders. Throughout his service in World War Two, Trevor Greenwood recalls his daily thoughts and events in a series of journals that he later titles D-Day to Victory. While Trevor drives deeper into Europe, he discovers a side of war that no person would ever want to experience. This unique feeling of terror and helplessness is what brings the soldiers of
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As Barry, Trevor's son, looks back on his father's experiences in World War Two, he too acknowledges that there is an aspect of war that is unequal to any other feeling. "He related the noise as beyond anything he had ever experienced both for sheer volume and for terror" (Greenwood 15). Since Barry knows of the unmatchable sense experienced by soldiers who were fighting in World War Two, it proves that it was an evident part of the soldiers everyday struggle because they passed their description of …show more content…
In one specific battle, Trevor's tank malfunctions and his crew leaves the tank behind. While they are walking back to safety, several mortar rounds land on them. Although he is physically intact, he becomes mentally disabled, for a short period of time, because of this event. "I know I was terrified...because my hands subsequently trembled for many hours. I must have become partly stupefied, because I remained on the ground for some time after the last round" (Greenwood 145). The feeling that Trevor endures in that moment is one that most people do not grasp. This makes the feeling of terror while in war unique. In Will to Survive, by Eric Walters, all the electronics and vehicles mysteriously stop working, which eventually throws the world into chaos and violence. When the problems escalate, Adam Daley is forced to fight for his neighborhood. While he looks back at all his experiences fighting, he realizes the terror he has been through and collapses mentally. "I thought about the two men I had killed, and then thought further back to the scenes of carnage at Olde Burnham... the bridge being blown up and hundreds of men plunging to their deaths; the massacre on the street; the looks in the eyes of children... we couldn't help; the burned bodies at Tent Town; cries of pain, looks of fear, the smell of death... all the images I couldn't get out of
As Barry, Trevor's son, looks back on his father's experiences in World War Two, he too acknowledges that there is an aspect of war that is unequal to any other feeling. "He related the noise as beyond anything he had ever experienced both for sheer volume and for terror" (Greenwood 15). Since Barry knows of the unmatchable sense experienced by soldiers who were fighting in World War Two, it proves that it was an evident part of the soldiers everyday struggle because they passed their description of …show more content…
In one specific battle, Trevor's tank malfunctions and his crew leaves the tank behind. While they are walking back to safety, several mortar rounds land on them. Although he is physically intact, he becomes mentally disabled, for a short period of time, because of this event. "I know I was terrified...because my hands subsequently trembled for many hours. I must have become partly stupefied, because I remained on the ground for some time after the last round" (Greenwood 145). The feeling that Trevor endures in that moment is one that most people do not grasp. This makes the feeling of terror while in war unique. In Will to Survive, by Eric Walters, all the electronics and vehicles mysteriously stop working, which eventually throws the world into chaos and violence. When the problems escalate, Adam Daley is forced to fight for his neighborhood. While he looks back at all his experiences fighting, he realizes the terror he has been through and collapses mentally. "I thought about the two men I had killed, and then thought further back to the scenes of carnage at Olde Burnham... the bridge being blown up and hundreds of men plunging to their deaths; the massacre on the street; the looks in the eyes of children... we couldn't help; the burned bodies at Tent Town; cries of pain, looks of fear, the smell of death... all the images I couldn't get out of