A quote from the diary of a British officer, WW2.

[brigadier Biggles]

Its monstrous to speak of this coming blood sacrifice of men as though it is a day at the races or a game. It is not. War is an evil business, it impinges on human liberty, dignity and peace with a kind of dullness, greed and apathy and turns men into crawling animals lusting to get at each others throats, to destroy each others noble and beautiful cities and values that have taken 2,000 years to create....To soldiers sitting in Nissen huts Churchills radio rhetoric sounds a bit embarrasing. They have no great faith in the new world, they have no belief in any great liberating mission. They know its going to be a charnel house. All they want is to put an end to it all, and get back to civvy street, to their homes, their private lives, their wives and loved ones. - Captain Alistair Bannerman British anti-tank platoon 28th May 1944

from the book "Rommel: the trail of the desert fox" by David Irving :)