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What are some classics/literature that writes about the horrifying

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What are some classics/literature that writes about the horrifying experience of war and the mental toll it has on soldiers?

>Excluding YA-tier novels.
>Only WWII, WWI or pre-world war (if there is anything good that far back).

Hard mode: Not about the six million.
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the thin red line
the naked and the dead
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>>8308490
pat barker's regeneration trilogy explored this excellently. definitely recommend it
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>>8308490
I'll be the first to mention Storm of Steel.
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All Quiet on the Western Front obviously

The best critique of war I've ever read was actually the first part of Journey to the End of the Night
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4Pd527GN48

Tell me this isn't the most terrifying video you have ever seen in your life.
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Slaughterhouse Five
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>>8308490
The Cannibal
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>>8308704
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>>8308490
>>Only WWII, WWI or pre-world war (if there is anything good that far back).
but y tho
modern war is even more cruel and dehumanizing (and relevant) than all that
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>>8308754
Based Wilfred Owen

“Strange friend,” I said, “here is no cause to mourn.”
“None,” said that other, “save the undone years,
The hopelessness..."
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I don't know if it really counts but Johnny Got his Gun
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