What are the motifs in Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War by Paul Fussell?

The violence of war is a recurring idea in the text. The book contrasts the high-minded media portrayal of the war with military combat experience. Instead of dashing young men zooming around in mobile jeeps with slender-barreled cannons, miserable and frightened young men were blown into pieces in stinking jungles and feted mud holes. They were killed in the thousands and tens of thousands, and they were killed in incredibly violent ways, from firearms, to bombs, to fire, to random accidents. Many were killed by military blunders that placed artillery strikes on one's own units, or strafing and bombing runs against one's own civilians and soldiers. The violence of modern warfare is so great and the confusion so profound that actual combat is unintelligible.