Kinda by accident but having re read it after learning about this it really does read a lot more like a general and utter horror at the devestation of war. In the same book he utterly ridicules an American propogandist for the Nazis, highlights the horrific treatment of the Soviet POW's etc. And sets up one of the narrator's fellow soldiers as being a basically wannabe nazi and total arsehole. The rest of his books etc. Do make me think this is a guy who has seen war and been scarred by the horror of it all. I honestly think its a combo of dodgy history as others have said and the fact he was actually there.