He gave extensive and accurate descriptions of fighting in the area at the time.
Description of the fighting terain, the devastation of villages, etc.
The novel begins with a description of the fighting at Stalingrad, still in the martial, residually Soviet tone of Grossman's newspaper days.
Syria's official news service blamed the slaying on "armed terrorists," Damascus' routine description of rebels fighting to overthrow Assad.
The state news agency blamed the attacks on "terrorists," the government's standard description of rebels fighting to oust the government of President Bashar Assad.
The Times's Lawrence James agreed, writing that "Ben Macintyre's coverage of the SAS in north Africa and, later, Italy, France and Germany, is brilliant, blending gripping narratives of fighting with descriptions of the fears of individual soldiers before battle and their reactions to its horror".
Bradley and Powers, the former television critic at The Chicago Sun-Times, describe the yearlong training and the days of fighting, with graphic descriptions of beaches jammed with the dead, the wounded and those about to be either or both, and give a detailed account of the flag-raisings (there were two, the first flag a small banner and a second, more famous large one).
He voiced displeasure with and disbelief of London's descriptions of dog fighting in White Fang, as well as Long's stories about Wayeeses the wolf taking down prey; Roosevelt was so specific as to debate the depicted outcome of the fights based on the size of the animals involved.
"Recurrent waves of fighting".
