... discussion of the pain or suffering of the writer, and while it was left to individual officers to censor letters in general going home, these would probably not permit such emotional weaknesses either. Thus the horrendous conditions faced in the trenches remained unspoken of, withheld from the public, while the cowardice or fear they must have felt, homesickness et cetera were ... through his eyes, at least. The "morass of glue-like mud" seeming sinisterly different from the simplistically ideal situation in source I, while the colour picture of that source (in our books) makes an even...

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... representing the characters accurately. All weapons used or fired were originals modified to shoot blanks. To make Band Of Brothers even more realistic, Simon Atherton, armourer, and his crew read books, interviews, journals, and anything they could find describing the actual soldiers, what weapons and ammunition they had with them on D-Day and what changed over the course of the campaign ... are four criteria to what is real. The first is surface realism meaning getting the details right ranging from the costumes to the set design. the nest is inner or emotional realism meaning that th...

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