The First World War is the first modern war in history in which both sides widely used tanks, planes, poison gas, artillery shells. The bloodiest front in World War One took place in the West, where both sides fought in large networks of trenches. This book “All Quiet on the Western Front” is set in the final stages of the war and is famous for depicting the savagery of the fighting. Trench warfare was often bloody, with soldiers dying in the thousands in useless human wave attacks. Those who survived suffered were horribly disfigured, and their lives would never be the same again.…
Why Australia fought in WWI Support for Britain, the ''mother country ''. Fear that the opportunity of adventure would pass the by (hardly had been overseas). The desire to avoid the disapproval of peer and women.…
12 September, 1917 As I write this, the enemy is shelling the trench I’m sitting in. The enemy has been shelling us sporadically for the past several days. The enemy will shell us for several hours, then stop and then resume the shelling later. Heavy shelling has left the area surrounding the trench pock marked with craters.…
My Dearest Nancy, I am writing to you from the trenches in my “dug-out”. It is cold and wet. Winter has not been kind to us out on the Western Front. Many of our chaps have gotten what they call “trench foot”. A nasty disease where your feet turn blue and swell up – even go numb.…
All Quiet On the Western Front In the book All Quiet On the Western front which is set behind the German Front Lines During World War l. We hear a story of six young soldiers who all went to school together and volunteered to fight in the great war due to nationalism and the thought of heroism of fighting for Germany their homeland. We are told the horrors of fighting in trench warfare on the western front and how it is to live their day by day.…
I’m very homesick, I miss you both very much. If I live to come home, I will never take anything for granted anymore. Life in the in the trenches has become dreadful. Having to live in constant fear of surprise attacks in the middle of the night, living among rats, Trench foot, and lice. I haven’t slept well since the war started.…
I am very blissful that I am talking to you and I’m glad to be alive. My fellow soldier’s and I have just been through the deadliest battle of our lives, the Battle Of Somme. The Germans call the battle “The Blood Bath” that is because 60 000 soldiers died in that one day. This incident was because of our senseless commander Sir Douglas Haig, he led all of us to our graves but, some of us have lived to tell about it.…
Many of the soldiers in WWI that were brought in the trenches were really young and eager to go war because the military had promised them so many things like money which many of them lacked. They military also told the soldiers that they would get a place to live and food to eat, but when the soldiers went to war and got in the trenches they soon discovered that the trenches were really pact with soldiers, they were really cold, and full of diseases due to the rodents that were often found underground. Many of the soldiers that were in the trenches died due to the diseases, the weather changes and occasionally the smoke bombs. There were many nurses that went to war to help the soldiers during the war and often soldiers would get sick because…
The mud splatters as the boots stomps through the trench. The deafening cracks and explosions flood the trenches. Blood flows through the trenches like a river. The young soldier, terrified, clenches the rifle in his hands. As the young soldier is running, a mortar round goes off behind him, and he falls and lands on his chest.…
Husband, I am thinking of you every moment of the day. It is difficult to imagine that someone I love so much has been at war for this long. These past three years have been hard on our daughter and I. The higher authorities are being very difficult, newspapers are publishing information and propaganda is everywhere. The posters make it seem as if it is mandatory to go to war and if you enlist you are not a man but a coward.…
Iḿ walking thru the trugeroust snow to the british costume house. I start walking to the door and British soldiers stop me. It felt like my feet were turning into ice and my hands were numb. I tried and tried but I couldn't get thru them. So I started shouting at them ¨Let me in, let me in.¨…
This war is bringing a toll on all of us. I do not know how much longer I can take this. We are constantly being bombarded by artillery shells of every caliber and size. Many of my friends are getting shell shock and seem to be going crazy. Life in the trenches is hard.…
When I first heard about the upcoming war I was excited and ready to enlist as you remember. It’s all different now. I’m in the front line of the trenches. I have seen many of my friends and acquaintances drop dead next to me or running across no man’s land. The German’s are ruthless, some men have been scorched to death because of the German invention, flamethrowers.…
Christmas Truce I smile. For the first time in my few weeks here, I smile. I run to look over the steep, mud wall of the trench and through the dirtied barbed wire. Men from both sides of the ravaged field are walking towards each other. Not towards the onslaught which usually comes with an expedition to No-Mans’ Land, but towards each other with open arms.…
The sky was engulfed with hopes and prayers of the soldiers that inhabited the wasteland below. Rain fell like pellets soaking everything it could reach. My clothes hung limply off my body, dripping with the water that was flowing from the grey stained sky. The mud that was once hard turned into slush in seconds and splashed everything as I attempted to navigate my way through the trench only using the few metres that I could see in front of me. The sounds of battle cries pierced through the fog, along with the explosions of guns firing bullets…