The war underground has gone largely unrecognised, while history has focused on men pouring over the tops of trenches into a hail of bullets and artillery shell explosions.
A cackle of small-arms fire and the thuds of mortar shell explosions could be heard in the distance as soldiers targeted another pocket of militant fighters.
In a tour de force of sophisticated overlaid sound in the celebrated battle sequences in the film, he mixed moments of silence, mimicking the temporary deafness that follows shell explosions, with the chaos and violence of the engagement.
He took one look at this killing field, mud up to the axles, and GI foxholes useless under vertical shell explosions, and knew instantly what the generals refused to admit, that it was the first world war's Passchendaele disaster all over again: brass sacrificing khaki for their greater glory.
Specifically, in the past two weeks or so, observers have been physically obstructed from reaching trouble-spots, they have had their vehicles attacked, battered and shot at, and they have been close to bomb and shell explosions.
Gunfire and shell explosions were incessant around the Palestinians at Sabra.
Among them are 11 civilians, who were killed by shell explosions.
The Promzona is an industrial tract built into an area known for fuel refineries, and it resembles a Hollywood set of what people think war looks like: abandoned homes with traces of past lives strewn about and streets pocked with the unmistakable flowers of shell explosions.
Zuckerman had thus laid the spectre of shell shock to rest: survivors of close-range, large-calibre shell explosions had been shown to be in reality suffering from lung damage.
