Truffaut famously said that there was no such thing as an anti-war film because all movies made war look glorious. I don't think he lived to see this film. 'Come and See' as Ebert wrote when he described the film in last book of Great Movies, is actually a phrase used in context from the Book of Revelation after the opening of the first box of the seven seals. (It's Revelation 6 if you want to see the actual quote)

Ebert also mentioned Kubrick's Paths of Glory, which I have seen. That is a World War I film and if that's a softened version of the war (which it had to be because it was made by Hollywood in 1957) I shudder to think what the real one would look like