It is in human nature to be destructive. While humans cannot get along with each other; creating the value of money out of paper, drawing imaginary lines on the surface to claim who owns what land, and even declaring that humans own each other based on the colour of their skin. Wars started popping up across the planet, calling themselves a succession, a revolution and a dominance. One of the first major wars was titled World War One, which split the planet in half: The Allies vs. The Central Powers. Most truly did not know what happened during the war, only the soldiers who knew what was happening in their areas. After the war several authors published war novels, sharing their stories of what happened in the trenches. From letters from soldiers,
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They could have been drafted into the army, pressured by peer/family members, or simply did not believe in what their county wanted out of the war. The unfairness of the entire event was described by Erich Remarque in his book, All Quiet on the Western Front where he stated, “[they] are merely honest and call a thing by its name; for there is a very great deal of fraud, injustice, and baseness in the army. It is nothing that regiments after regiment turns again and again to the ever more hopeless struggle, that attack follows attack along the weakening, retreating, crumbling line” (Grayzel, 156). It was not just the German regiments that felt as if they were being treated unfairly, but also the soldiers fighting in the British Indian Army. A letter from Bihari Lal, to a loved one back home was never reached due to the supposed harm it could do to the British reputation, this was not unusually as many Indian letters never were received. Lal’s letter was eventually found, in it he states the treatment of himself and his brothers by the British, dated November 28th, 1917: “I had to go three nights without sleep, as I was on a motor lorry, and the lorry fellows, being Europeans, did not like to sleep with me, being an Indian. [The] cold was terrible, and it was raining hard; not being able to sleep on the ground in the open, I had to pass the whole night sitting on the outward lorry seats” (Grayzel, 74/75). The Europeans forced Lal and his brothers to sleep sitting up in the rain, because they did not want someone of colour sleeping next to them. Both the Allies and the Central Power witnessed the battle coming from both sides, there attack from the other side which they could fight against, but not the judgment from their commanders on their side of the home
They could have been drafted into the army, pressured by peer/family members, or simply did not believe in what their county wanted out of the war. The unfairness of the entire event was described by Erich Remarque in his book, All Quiet on the Western Front where he stated, “[they] are merely honest and call a thing by its name; for there is a very great deal of fraud, injustice, and baseness in the army. It is nothing that regiments after regiment turns again and again to the ever more hopeless struggle, that attack follows attack along the weakening, retreating, crumbling line” (Grayzel, 156). It was not just the German regiments that felt as if they were being treated unfairly, but also the soldiers fighting in the British Indian Army. A letter from Bihari Lal, to a loved one back home was never reached due to the supposed harm it could do to the British reputation, this was not unusually as many Indian letters never were received. Lal’s letter was eventually found, in it he states the treatment of himself and his brothers by the British, dated November 28th, 1917: “I had to go three nights without sleep, as I was on a motor lorry, and the lorry fellows, being Europeans, did not like to sleep with me, being an Indian. [The] cold was terrible, and it was raining hard; not being able to sleep on the ground in the open, I had to pass the whole night sitting on the outward lorry seats” (Grayzel, 74/75). The Europeans forced Lal and his brothers to sleep sitting up in the rain, because they did not want someone of colour sleeping next to them. Both the Allies and the Central Power witnessed the battle coming from both sides, there attack from the other side which they could fight against, but not the judgment from their commanders on their side of the home