"A lot of people don't realize how brutal that conflict really was." I was at a War Museum last year; I think the one in Auckland, NZ? There was a display which talked about a .. 48-hour cease-fire, at a line on the front. Two trenches, dug-in. The stench and the FLIES from the decaying corpses was so bad, that both sides agreed to a cease-fire to retrieve the dead and bury them..