“Saving that Kraut was the final joke of the whole goddamned war. I mean we had more in common with him than all our replacements who got killed whose names we never even knew. We'd all made it through we were alive. I'm gonna dedicate my book to those who shot but didn't get shot, because it's about…”
— Samuel Fuller, Pvt. Zab, 1st Squad, Robert Carradine, imdb.com