soldier, Lieutenant Johannes Niemen on an event during the trench warfare of world war one. This source is not very beneficial to a historian studying WW1 as it is a recount of a rare event that happened once throughout the whole war. Source 2.12 is a primary source, as it is written from a soldier who...
Life in the trenches was an awful experience for the soldiers. These young men that were taken from their houses and families and were forced to fight in the war. It is very impossible to even start to imagine how homesick and frightened they were in the trenches. These soldiers were living in fear...
THE GREAT WAR - LIFE IN THE TRENCHES Words cannot express how terrible life in the trenches was. Young men had just been taken from home and forced to fight. It is impossible to imagine how homesick and frightened they would've been. During their lives in the trenches many probably believed...
Dear king, I have been asked to prepare a report about why ww1 started. There are many reasons: short- term, medium-term and long-term. Here are the short term reasons and how they led to war. Short-terms causes Assassins the Black Hand gang...
light of the rockets, corpses and limbs littering the ground, red rivers flowing across the fields, these are all things encountered by soldiers in WW1. In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque writes about the experiences of a German infantry soldier, Paul, on the Western Front in World...
funeral was held in Wells Cathedral on Thursday 6 August 2009. At 11.00 am, the bells of Wells Cathedral were rung 111 times to mark each year of his life. His coffin travelled from his home, Fletcher House, to the cathedral where the service commenced at noon. Patch’s coffin was accompanied by two private...
World War 1 is perhaps best known for being a war fought in trenches (Grolier 94), ditches dug out of the ground to give troops protection from enemy artillery and machine-gun fire. In Erich Remarque's novel, <u>All Quite on the Western Front</u>, that is exactly how he described trench warfare....
Dear mother and father, Life as a nurse in the Great War is not an easy life. Every day I am constantly faced with a new challenge. A few days ago we had many victims of trench foot show up at our door, and many of them were untreatable. Trench foot is a fungal infection of the feet caused by cold...
Laagers” – the word “Panzer” meaning armoured. Even the idea of an armoured and armed self propelled machine had been around for several years before WW1, but precisely what they would be used for would be was a matter of debate. Authors such as H.G.Wells believed that giant Land ships would prowl the...
rallies his troops from a French château 35 miles behind the front, wining and dining on Champagne, Caviar and Cigars while his troops, rotting in damp trenches and existing on one distasteful looking meal, die of lack of medical care, sepsis, diarrhea and dysentery, a dozen to the day. Blackadder's final...
Trench warfare is when both sides in a battle dig trenches (deep ditches) that provide them with protection from the gunfire etc of their enemy. Go to the blue links below to gain more info regarding the dimensions etc. The Western Front during World War 1 stretched from the North Sea to the Swiss...
WW1 ....was trench war fare and the trench stalemate was finally broken when the first tanks were built and aerial bombing began ...WW2 ... was a highly mechanized war with all sorts of tanks ...machines ... planes ... fighters and bombers ... naval battles ...very different from WW1 WW II was a much...
army in world. Then after the early defeats the French helped the British. They stopped the Germans before they could reach Paris and both sides dug trenches. The French and British armies suffered huge losses the French had lost close to 1,500,000 men through out the war. But the French did end up winning...
number of deaths that took place each day on the gory battlefields of the war. Altogether eight million soldiers lost their lives fighting in the trenches. Twenty million people were wounded and there was an extensive destruction, which ravaged cities and their civilian populations. The First World War...
Modern History- Assessment Task 1 WW1 Source Analysis 1. Use Sources A and B and your own knowledge. How successful were the Allies and the Germans in using technology to break the stalemate on the Western Front? The Allies and Germany used new technology to break the stalemate on the Western Front...
consisted of digging huge trenches on each side of a field, bordered by barbwire, where soldiers would fight amongst each other in the trenches and wait until an officer would whistle with the scream, “CHARGE!” where soldiers would storm out from the trenches, and charge the enemy’s trenches. However this was...
going to write about the life in the trenches. The ten topics that I am going to write about is the trenches, dugout, parapet, no man’s land, snipers, the rats, lice that the soldiers had and trenches fever and foot that they had some troubles with at that time. The trenches were basically a long hole...
Long term causes of WW1 Though WW1 began in 1914, its causes can be traced back to tensions and suspicious, which had developed over a great number of years. The path to war involved nationalism, militarism, imperialism and alliances. Nationalism Nationalism is a strong loyalty for your own country...
or 100 years ago maybe my life would have been better.” People compare how life was 100 years ago to the year 2014. There are many pros and cons to each time period. However if people were to look at the two times closely it wouldn’t be extremely hard to figure out that life is better in 2014 than it...
done strolls quietly into hell. Relation to Movie: In the movie there is a famous scene that relates to the topic. The soldiers are stuck in the trenches and an impatient commander decides to send the soldiers over the wall, knowing that beyond it was almost certain death. Hearing their orders the soldiers...
Introduction World War 1 was like nothing that had ever happened in the world before. Although it was inevitable, the horrific loss of life was pointless. Almost no-one except the politicians ruling agreed with it, which has been proven by soldiers diary's, and most famously the football...
Comparison and Contrast of the Steps that Led Russia to Leave WW1 and The United States to enter WW1 World War 1 was one of the darkest and bloodiest chapters of World History. The heavy number of casualties and the economic loses suffered for all the European countries that took part in the ‘Great...
subterranean holes along muddy and trenches that stretched for miles and fought vicious battles that had little glory and much senseless death. Soldiers thought the war might never end and that their children would grow up to take their place in the carnage of the wreaking trenches. WWI marked the first use of...
Germans. It was expected that the surprised Germans, exhausted from the week-long bombardment of their trenches and bunkers, would put up little fight. The Allies could then advance on the next line of trenches, with troops moving safely behind a curtain of artillery fire. With the German defence extended,...
Soldiers Trench Conditions Trenches are huge open top tunnels dug into the ground, mostly tall enough to stand in without your head being seen over the top. They were very narrow and hard to move around in, especially quickly. The main purpose of digging these trenches was to supply reasonable cover...
The effects of the war on the soldiers in the trenches (Picture taken from webpage http://www.gwpda.org/photos/brit1.htm ) During the four years of the First World War, in the Trenches, millions of soldiers lived tormented in very...
Dulce et Decorum Est, Disabled and Anthem for Doomed Youth. Siegfried Sassoon is another poet who also portrays this theme in his poem Suicide in the Trenches. The Techniques used in all four poems is very similar along with the bitter and angry tone shown throughout all four poems. Dulce et Decorum Est...
HOW WW1 STARTED: Germany was made a country in 1871, by a dude called otto von bismark, the french didnt like this there was a little war between france and prussia called the franco-prussian war, prussia won creating germany. when Germany was made they didnt have colonies to make a empire for trade...
them occupied. These included filling sandbags, mending barbed wire, repairing the duckboards on the floor of the trench and the draining of trenches. Trenches had to be rebuilt after heavy rainfall or an explosion. Soldiers also had to take it in turns to be on sentry duty meaning they had to stand...
Russia has only been in the war for two months and I’ve only been here a mere three weeks. The trenches on the eastern front are nothing like I imagined. They are out of control. There has been rumor in the trenches that the Germans (our enemy) have unleashed a misty like substance in combat that has said...
example an argument. The dug out which is shown in most scenes of the play, where it is set is very small with only one table. The situations in the trenches would have been extremely uncomfortable for the men; this can be very stressful for the men at times. This can be noticed from certain things in...
in the Rift Valley Province of Kenya. They have traditionally herded cattle, goats and sheep in and an arid region with sparse vegetation. A nomadic life-style is essential for their survival since attempts to settle down in permanent locations have reduced their self-sufficiency and ability to maintain...
The Importance of Being on Time “World War I (WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised...
Hey you. Ya you. You want to find out about Private Peaceful you have come to the right place. As night in the trenches tick by Private Peaceful remembers his child hood. He lives in the country with his mother, Big Joe, Charlie, and Molly. But each night brings him closer to something he cannot think...
war that brought much pain, sorrow and bitterness into people’s lives. Accounts of the war tell us the horror and the realities the soldiers in the trenches and involved in the war effort were faced with everyday. Poems were written from the front line because they are one of the most powerful ways to...
him and this gave him some kind of relief. Sassoon’s second poem that I read was “The Redeemer” this poem is about a time that Sassoon was in the trenches on a winters night with the rest of the soldiers awaiting the morning so that the fighting may continue. The word choice used in this poem is what...
Faulks resents the soldier’s experiences of war by making frequent deaths seem part of everyday life. At one point in the novel a big mistake is made by jack, 4 soldiers die because of it. However the soldiers barely seem to be affected by it in any way at all. Jack has just cost 4 soldiers their lives...
In All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque portrays a generation of men who, when the war was over, found it difficult to return to civilian life. This theme of a lost generation is what drives All Quiet on the Western Front. In the beginning of the novel, before the story has even begun, Remarque...
technologies (Wikipedia WW1 Technology, 2008). What honor was there in men who were cut down by machine guns, and what courage could one display against mustard gas? Thus, World War One had lasting effects on the generation of this time, leaving many veterans with the feeling that life was harsh and hollow...
From the age of Great Epics to the Modern age, poetry has been written on almost all the subjects relating human life, however ‘War’ has been the most vital theme of the epics viz. The Ramayana, The Mahabharata, The Iliad and The Odyssey. The Ramayana, The Mahabharata, The Iliad and The Odyssey ...
realisation the abysmal conditions of the trench the soldiers found themselves in. The word ‘we’d’ indicates that it is a first person narrative and a real life experience which makes it even more poignant and builds a sense of intensity. The use of the words ‘and he knew’ adds a slight menace to the first line...
sky burned”. The soldiers faced death in the presence of the enemy. In Exposure the soldiers face death under the extreme weather conditions in the trenches. This poem is slow paced and repeating, “But nothing happens”. It contains passive slow verbs, “our ghosts drag home”. Both poems contain feelings...
Great War" redirects here. For other uses, see Great War (disambiguation). World War I Clockwise from top: Trenches on the Western Front; a British Mark IV tank crossing a trench; Royal Navy battleship HMS Irresistible sinking after striking a mine at the Battle of the Dardanelles; a Vickers machine...
” The next day, the company is out in the field practicing camouflage techniques in the field. The men are covered with thistle and are dug into trenches. The commander was commenting on how none of the soldiers had the ability to hide effectively and if it bomber saw them; the whole company would be...
shows the conditions the soldiers on both sides had to endure to survive. Many soldiers were temporarily forced to abandon the protection of the trenches due to the flooding waters and rotting carcasses. Many nights had seen soldiers disappear, as the casualties would be swallowed up in the mud. Many...
Essay on Australia and WW1 2. How did the role of women change in Australian society as a result of the Great War? World War (1914 – 1918) brought many changes and new roles into society and our culture. The Great War gave women a chance to show a male dominated society and themselves that they...
white majority of the South and explain its relations with both the planter elite and the black slaves. 4. Describe the nature of African American life, both free and slave, before the Civil War. 5. Describe the effects of “peculiar institution” of slavery on both blacks and whites. 6. Explain why...
battleground – a wet and stinking morass. The mere thought of going in there was terrifying.” The worst experience for Canadians was in the trenches themselves. The trenches were often infested with rats, the soldiers often went weeks without washing or changing clothes, and most were infested with body lice...
military were forbidden from having an air force. In conclusion after WW1, the League of Nations was founded. The League of Nations was an international organization, with their headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. It was created after WW1 to offer an environment for resolving any international disputes....
use of words in place of just a straight forward, confronting 'kill a man.' This just meant, the radius of fatalility would become too far to claim a life, but the effect of this line is sarcasm. It's as it is questioning why it only kills people in that distance and not further. The line also tries to...
marauding brutes, looting and pillaging in a manner quite unknown to the gentlemanly. They make slavery seem OK. The slaves going off to war to dig trenches seem HAPPY. The role of mammy was accurate. The role of the dumb nigger slave who didn’t know anything about childbirth was pretty inaccurate. ...
Language was flourishing again. As a result of the conquest, Norman French in official and literary contexts, although, obviously, not in the day-to-day life of the majority of the population, was driven out Old English. 1066-1350: Most of the work was written in Anglo- Norman because of the French Dialect...
Maximus Gladiator, a Ridley Scott production is a five academy award winning film. It is a epic tale about Maximus, the films main protagonist and his life in 180 AD when the roman army was “at the height of its power”. The film opens on the roman army at their last battle in Germania for the “final fight...
Opportunities or Having Opportunities Thrust Upon You, Know Where You and the Organization are Going, Leaders Help Others Be Leaders, Lead in the Trenches, and Laugh it Off and Have Fun. U nderstanding why individuals perceive a particular leadership experience to be their personal best leads...
captivating and vigorous look into the infamous Malegbolge. Physically, Malebolge is a large, funnel shaped cavern, divided into ten concentric circular trenches known as “ bolgias”. Each “bolgia” or “pouch” is dedicated to punishing a certain type of sinner. Long bridges run from the outer circumference of...
present in the twentieth century. In the 1950s women were shown as an idealised housewife and mother; a stereotype inflicted everywhere in everyday life. From cigarette boxes to kitchen utensils, women were characterised to be useless, stupid and supposedly weak. The advertisements during this decade...
"square" division. During WW2, the U.S. Army transitioned to "triangular" divisions of 3 brigades each (most other armies had gone triangular during WW1). They did this by cutting out the regiment level, but since the regiment traditionally was thought of as a soldier's "home," battalions kept their regimental...
he is safe, but soon he will not be, and the war still proceeds. “ And then he thought: tomorrow night we trudge up to the trenches, and my boots are rotten. Five miles of stodgy clay and freezing sludge, And everything but the wretchedness forgotten. ...
characteristics that have no real purpose or use. So can somebody please explain how after millions of years of evolution, the most intelligent form of life (apparently) still has people on this Earth who seriously need to apologise to a tree for working his little branches off to produce oxygen for them...
colonies. Chapter 4 1. Describe the basic economy, demographics, and social structure and life of the seventeenth-century colonies. 2. Compare and contrast the different forms of society and ways of life of the southern colonies and New England. 3. Explain how the practice of indentured servitude...