Trench warfare

"The Somme set the picture by which future generations saw the First World War: hapless soldiers; blundering obstinate generals; nothing achieved." -A.J.P Taylor One of the ways the Battle of the Somme had significance in World War One was the attritional wearing down of the German army. The war took a turning point in 1916, up until then some kind of peace could have been reached and an agreement made, this all changed in 1916. Instead of trying to break through each other’s lines the armies…

have. Those filthy creatures constantly make the soldiers sick. To go along with the rat infestations there is also the issue of “trench foot”. The trenches are blistering cold and damp. This makes our feet exposed to the looming bacteria. I pray every day that I do not contract this ghastly disease as it is quite gruesome to see. Yesterday one of the soldiers who had trench foot had to remove his boot because of all the dirt. As we pulled at the boot along came his skin and leaving me the sight…

The poems “Dulce et decorum Est” and “The letter” are written by Wilfred Owen during WW1. Owen started writing these poems when he suffered an injury during the war and had to go back to England to recover. These poems have a similar message about war as Owen seems to give a firsthand experience about war in these poems which draws the reader closer to Owen. In the poem Dulce et Decorum Est, Owen presents war as violent, inconsiderate and simply pointless. He uses a variety of different…

War II saw the greatest development of weapons and tactics in the 30 years, between World War I and World War II, than any other time period. World War I, from 1914-1918 war raged in Europe. The United States entered the war in 1917. Trench and chemical warfare was at their peek. A mere two years after the Wright brothers flew at Kittyhawk, the first war to involve the airplane was in swing. Aviators dropping grenades from planes, bomber pilots before bomber planes. Troops on all sides…

tactics and weaponry - amongst other things - occur often. The Napoleonic Wars are a stark contrast to World War One, so much must have happened for the tactics used in battles to evolve. The Crimean War marked the start of trench warfare as armies realised that trench systems would be an effective way to attack the enemy whilst being protected at the same time. However, not many British troops were able to use this strategy as officers at the time were elderly and accustomed…

World War I: The Graveyard for People and Values The Great War was a dreadful experience for many people that put Victorian values six feet under. The war experience exploded the generation’s faith in cultural and social institutions of the 19th century. I will demonstrate how World War I poems stretched beyond the trenches into the souls and bones of the Europeans and their civilizations. This experience will directly reflect T.S. Eliot’s postwar epic poem, “Wasteland” that showed the…

World War I (WWI or WW1), was a global war triggered by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. It was a major, historical war in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and ended on 11 November 1918. HISTORY.com (2015). More than 8 million soldiers killed and 20 million wounded as a result of the war Keith, L. pbs.org (2006) , a casualty rate aggravated by nations ' technological and industrial inventions, accompanied by battle tactics. It was one of the most destructive conflicts in history,…

The First World War, began in July of 1914. It did not end until July of 1923 when the final peace treaty between Turkey and the Allied powers was signed. Throughout the course of the war, everyone was impacted. For soldiers life in the trenches was unbearable. Factory workers were constantly forced to work under harsh conditions and in dangerous situations. Refugees who tried escaping the terrors of war in their homelands were faced with even more challenges when trying to find safety in new…

world most terrible weapon was the reason battles were won by the Canadians. To Continue, After a massive crater was opened during battle that could allowed the Germans to win. What was left of the soldiers who were in charge of manning the firing trench “also were defending the crater” to ensure that they did not lose it to the germans (159). The soldiers who stopped at nothing to hold the crater in order to hold back the Germans displayed an enormous amount of courage to save the day. Finally,…

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque is a story about the lives of a young group of German soldiers who fight on the French front during World War One. The book is narrated by a young man named Paul Baumer. Paul and several of his friends enlist into the army right out of high school due to the moving patriotic speeches by their schoolmaster. However, at the front lines they learn that war is nothing like they anticipated. Through the viewpoints of these characters Remarque very…