All quiet on the western front- film

[DefTrap]

You don't see so much WW1 stuff because it has none of the glossy heroics of WW2.
My greatgrandad was shot in the heed at Ypres early in the conflict (one of the early batch of 'proper' soldiers), survived and was invalidated out. Never the same again - not really surprising, it sounded like they riveted a scrap of tin to his barnet to keep the brylcreem out and sent him home.

The film was ok. I never watch the dubbed versions as it always way more atmospheric in the filmed lingo, and the casting and skills of the dubbing artistes tends to be frighteningly awful.

[Bigyin]

They actually had to tone down some of Blair Mayne's and Sterling's antics,as they thought people wouldn't believe them. Paddy was a psycho and him burning to death in his car in Ards was because folk were too frightened to help him.

I read a lot about Mayne and Stirling in my younger days and the most obvious thing i recall was "How the hell did they get away with that". Stirling appeared to think anything was possible as long as it could be imagined and Mayne , as you said, was a psychopath who just wanted to fight anybody, anywhere so a unit like the early days SAS was a dream come true