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Some good recommendations there, thanks you Chock. You'll have to excuse my original post erasure, I got a bit self conscious about the original post. Not to give my story away much.
There was a nice find in our local library, I've forgotten the name of the book, but it was about an SE5a Squadron, that was CO'd by a particularly nasty character, very loutish , drunk most of the time. His squad had a very high turn-over rate of new recruits, either killed in combat or transferring out after 2 months. It's told from the perspective of one of the old timer survivees.
What was captivating about the story was the incredibly short almost prose like conversations, well if you could call the ootbursts of the commanding officer, conversations. Pretty gritty detailing of the war, as they were but a few miles from the front, and half ways through the story they had to relocate.
The training regime this commander put his group through was almost homicidal, but it it also reflected that you there to either kill or be killed trying, otherwise you were wasting food and bunk space.
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