fought each other in trenches four hundred miles long. Soldiers spent weeks at a time sitting in seven feet deep and six feet wide trenches consuming diseases and experiencing harsh conditions. Life in the trenches was hell on earth‚ men suffered from trench foot‚ body lice‚ and the attacks from trench rats that were almost impossible to prevent‚ and there were dead bodies everywhere. In a letter to parents living in East Grinstead‚ England in 1915‚ Private Livesay wrote‚ “Our trenches are... ankle deep
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Soldiers in WWI Life in the trenches was extremely difficult for thousands of people in WWI. The living conditions were terrible which added to the difficulty of life of a soldier on the frontline during WWI. The trenches‚ along with the rest of the war‚ were filled with the fear of going head on into battle. Soldiers faced death along with infestation‚ incoming artillery and lack of supplies. WWI began as the result of a Serbian Nationalist assassinating Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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In the Trenches In literature sensory imagery is used to evoke emotions in the reader or to bring the text to life. In his essay‚ In the Trenches‚ Charles Yale Harrison does so by descriptively retelling his experience of fighting in World War I. As I read the vivid narrative‚ images were wrought in my mind. The writer’s use of sensory imagery was not only astonishingly effective in drawing out emotional response‚ but also in bringing the story to life. The visual imagery he utilized in the
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World war one –life in the trenches When men volunteered to fight in world war one‚ on the Western front‚ little did they know about the conditions they would be living and fighting in the trenches‚ and for how long this would all go on for. The Great War lasted for four years even though many believed they would be home by Christmas 1914 on till 11/11/1918(today know better as remembrance day). (See source A) Even if the men did know about many of the conditions in the trench they would most
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Life in the trenches during the First World War took many forms‚ and varied widely from sector to sector and from front to front. Undoubtedly‚ it was entirely unexpected for those eager thousands who signed up for war in August 1914. Indeed‚ the Great War - a phrase coined even before it had begun - was expected to be a relatively short affair and‚ as with most wars‚ one of great movement. The First World War was typified however by its lack of movement‚ the years of stalemate exemplified on the
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Introduction…………………………………………………................................03 How had science and technology changed the nature of warfare?......................................................................................................04 How awful was daily life for soldiers in the trenches?…………………………………………………......................................10 Why was defending the Ypres Salient so difficult?………………………………………………….......................................15 Why was the Battle of the Somme such a disaster?…………………………………………………
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Introduction : Siegfried Sassoon’s poem‚ Suicide in the trenches‚ successfully demonstrates conflict during a world war through its form‚ meaning and structure. a STEP-UP analysis clearly reveals the conflict conveyed in this poem. Subject matter: the poem is about the depression of a young soldier. The depression of this young soldier before he commits suicide is clearly displayed in the poem. At the start of the poem‚ the image of a happy‚ young‚ and perhaps rather naïve boy is placed before
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no one great end-result for any of the central powers‚ it goes to show the uselessness of war. It is unmistakable to see these facts after reading All Quiet On the Western Front‚ a novel labeling the horrors of WW1 for what they are. The book is of a young soldiers experience in the trenches‚ and the indignities he suffered for the illusion of glory in battle. Overall‚ what can be said about the dismay‚ the terror that is evident in not just this war‚ but any war; what should be said is that it is
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WWI that made it so unique was its use of a new tactic of digging a series of connecting trenches that carved up the landscape of the Western and Eastern fronts. This use of trenches by both the Allies and the Germans was one of the primary reasons that WWI lasted as long as it did. Life in the trenches was a horrifying experience for any man who served in the Great War. The terrible conditions in the trenches would only be fully known by the public after the war was over in late 1918. The armies
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My dear Lucy‚ I know that I am not supposed to be writing to you right now but I just couldn’t help it; I need to express myself to you on everything that has been going on here in the trenches. The trenches are so cold at the moment; I wish it would stay this way though. It’s perfect right now‚ beautiful snowfall and this I am happy for‚ brings us back the old memories of me and you. Unfortunately it will not be like this forever‚ it will be summer in a while and that is going to be bad. I remember
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