Trench warfare

Britain and Australia. This battle eventually resulted in trench warfare with 700 kilometres of zig zag trenches spread from the “Swiss Frontier to the English Channel, cutting across northern France and into southern Belgium.” This trench warfare started a stalemate and was home to some of the most gruesome suffering and horrible conditions that soldiers have ever been faced with. Construction of the trenches: The standard British trench was dug 3 metres wide at the top, 1.5 metres wide at the…

(The Trenches of WWI) The trenches of World War I helped the army stay protected from enemy fire, but they had to deal with dead bodies, rats, cold water and minimum food. Most dealt with trench foot and many lost feet and toes. For food they had tea and dog biscuits and not much meat except for rats. History thinks that the war was wasteful, but it was really a thought out system. Exhaustion, low reserves, and huge loss of life on both sides made both them realize the defensiveness…

of trench life, portrays his artistic ability to effectively illustrate his ideas for the…

machine guns and trenches on the battlefield really took a psychological toll on the soldiers. Trench warfare, changed the way battles were fought and also had a tremendous effect on the soldiers. Trench warfare involved soldiers on both sides digging massive trenches in the ground resulting in a military stalemate. Soldiers would wait and when the chance presented itself, they would climb out of the trench to the opposing side. This was a suicide mission as “anyone who stands up is a target…

Although the novel is written in the third person omniscient, the beginning of the novel is described in a childish manner, as if the audience is experiencing and observing things through Rosemary’s lens. Thus, the French Riviera is seen with beauty but with naiviety. The illustration of the Riviera is vividly romantic and stunning. Color imagery is dominant in the opening lines of the novel. Among all the colors used to paint the setting of the novel, different hues of pinks and red come out.…

character Paul Baumer, a German soldier who fights in the infamous Western Front during WWI while truly questioning if the war is worth fighting. Paul and his comrades face the disgusting conditions of the trenches as they risk infectious diseases like “Trench Foot” and rat infestation. Baumer is also faced with the deaths of his own comrades and friends and the effects that it has on him. Paul also witnesses the dark effects of power and the lengths in which people…

and risking lives for their country but living in places where you get bad trench conditions including trench foot and fever, have pests which bring diseases and steal your food, have health problems and not able to treat them as there isn’t much aid for everyone to be treated. The Australian Troops who lived in the trenches had to suffer the deafening sound of canon fire and the artillery but also many illnesses such as trench fever where they get a very high temperature, constant diarrhoea…

side that they had fought on. Tanks, mustard gas, and airplanes not only changed the way wars were fought, but they changed many more wars to come. Tanks were first introduced in World War I on September 15, 1916, the tanks were used to combat trench warfare the tracks known as caterpillar tracks gave the tanks a good grip in the mud and allowed them to travel over rough terrain that other vehicles could not. Their heavy armor made them slow but protected the crew from small arms fire…

The major ‘bump in the road’ of this objective was that an advance would only be very short. Attacking soldiers would find themselves to be be amongst others fighting in an enemy trench system. As early as 1915 british leaders came and decided on a plan that would include large artillery barrages that would intend to dismantle enormous sections of fixed defenses and destroy enemy barbed wire. For example in the Somme these new tactics…

The Battle of the Somme took place during the First World War between July 1st and November 18th, 1916. On the upper reaches of the Somme River in France, the Allies (United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Africa) fought against the central powers in the largest battle of the First World War. Over one million men were wounded or killed from both forces involved, during what is now called one of the bloodiest military operations recorded in history. The battle had been planned by the…