War has a tendency to bring out both the worst and best qualities of human beings. These conflicts and their resulting effects on people are often depicted in literature. One of the best examples of war literature is Erich Marie Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front. All Quiet on the Western Front depicts the everyday struggles of German soldier Paul Baümer and his comrades. Throughout the war‚ the servicemen maintain a strong bond between with each other. However‚ this bond even extends to the
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The battle of Verdun is considered the greatest battle in history. It was fought from the 21st of February 1916 until the 19th of December 1916 which is the lengthiest battle. It was fought on a tiny piece of land but it caused over 700‚000 casualties. The location of the battle was fought about 10km North-East from Verdun at a place called Fort Douaumont (Source 1). The battle of Verdun started because General Philippe Pétain wanted to become a hero in France (History Learning Site‚ 2015). There
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The First World War spawned a great variety of war novels and memoirs. German novels such as All Quiet on the Western Front and British memoirs by Robert Graves‚ Siegfried Sassoon‚ and Edmund Blunden helped to create a mythology of "disillusionment." I will survey several German and British memoirs in this essay‚ making comparisons between them with a view to drawing some conclusions as to how German and British soldiers sustained morale. Ernst Jünger’s The Storm of Steel is a unique and interesting
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FUTURE OF CHEMICAL WARFARE INTRODUCTION Background 1. Chemical Warfare is a method of warfare in which toxic or incapacitating chemicals agents are used to further the goals of the combatants. The concept of Chemical Warfare is as old as warfare itself. Until the 20th century such warfare was primarily limited to starting fires‚ poisoning wells‚ distributing smallpox-infected articles‚ and using smoke to confuse the enemy. The most extensive and large-scale use of Chemical Weapons was witnessed
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smoke and cordite are only few of the pugnant stenches we soldiers have grown used to. Countless decomposing men lay lifeless on the battlefields and I can only hope I will not become of them. Numerous men avoid getting their feet wet in fear of trench foot. I’ve heard about it and some say the pain of a bullet is far more wished for than the intolerable pain of your feet swelling to the point of possible amputation. If you’re lucky you may walk out with both feet. But although it is inevitable
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Paper 2 Regeneration ’ by Pat Barker is a novel focusing on Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland in 1917. The novel shows the physical and mental traumas inflicted by the war on the soldiers. Apart from the main war‚ the novel also addresses the internal ’wars ’ in Britain‚ based on class‚ gender‚ father and son relationships‚ the ’sane ’ and the ’insane ’‚ the soldiers and the civilians. While men aspired to gain glory from war and become heroes‚ Regeneration effectively conveys that not
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Bayonet Charge Controlled Assessment notes 1. Hughes uses a metaphor to present the conflict‚ when he describes soldier uniform as “raw seamed hot khaki”. The use of the word “raw” implies pain and suffering as well as being hot and uncomfortable. It shows the reader how badly the soldiers were treated in WW1 as even their uniforms caused discomfort. Every seam of the uniform is painful. 2. The riffle is personify as being “numb as a smashed arm” because it indicates horror of war. The word “smashed”
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war explore ways to win. Tanks‚ chemical warfare‚ and powered flight are highly significant technologies that affected the war effort. Tanks could cross barbed wire‚ and pass through no man’s land easily. They didn’t go fast and broke down multiple times‚ but they could resolve a stalemate. Soldiers fled into the trenches as they couldn’t create a dent in the other side. Tanks allowed the war to progress and finally come to a resolution. Chemical warfare was a more cruel way to win the war. There
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When war began in 1914 the British army possessed a mere 25‚000 horses. The War Office was given the urgent task of sourcing half a million more to go into battle. They were essential to pull heavy guns‚ to transport weapons and supplies‚ to carry the wounded and dying to hospital and to mount cavalry charges. In the first year of war the countryside was emptied of shire horses and riding ponies‚ a heartbreaking prospect for farming families who saw their finest and most beloved horses requisitioned
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Gallipoli is an Australian Film set made in the 1981‚ directed by Peter Weir. Starring Mel Gibson and Mark Lee‚ as Frank Dunne and Archy Hamiton. The film depicts the two young athlete runners journey with being enlisted in the Australian Army during the First World war. They are sent to the peninsula of Gallipoli in Ottoman Empire‚ where they are involved in the Gallipoli Campaign. Throughout the Film Peter Weir demonstrates the young soldiers start to lose their true innocent belief of war. The
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