From Trevor Greenwood's D-Day To Victory?

Many people don't realize how greatly war impacts the soldiers who fought in it. As the Allies were pushing back the Nazis in World War Two, they began to use large amounts of tanks to achieve their goals. Trevor Greenwood, who was a British tank commander in the ninth Royal Tank Regiment, began his service at D-Day and continued to assist the British cause until Germany surrendered. Throughout his time in World War Two, Trevor Greenwood wrote his daily thoughts and events in a series of journals that he later titled 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 brought soldier of World War Two to their knees, physically and mentally. In war, there is an incomparable of terror that only those who fought in it experience. One topic that Trevor repeatedly associated to this incomparable felling of fear and terror is the noise of war, which is

Barry's acknowledgment of the feeling of terror also shows he knows how difficult it was for his father, and his fellow soldiers, to overcome the feeling of terror. There are many times in Trevor's journals when he recalls that he and is tank crew are called in to reinforce the front line. Because the war is still raging on when they arrive they can hear and see the fighting going on. "As we neared Verson, the noise became worse... terrifying" (Greenwood 80). When Trevor accounts of this, it shows that war drives an unmatched feeling of terror deep into the soldier's mind. Because the feeling is so profound, it leaves a lasting psychological impact on those who experienced it. However, those who did not fight in war did not experience war's environment of fear and distress, which causes the unique feeling of terror to be only fought in war. Therefore, the noise of war forces a feeling of terror that no one experiences outside of