This essay will explore this interpretation of Haig and the generals, but in order to provide a balanced view, I will also consider the positive interpretations of Haig as a leader, as many sources from the time and recently praise him as a good leader. At the time of the war and after, soldiers criticised Haig and the generals , Haig was criticised because he made commands without being in trenches. In source B2 a soldier who had watched his friends die around him due to Haigs incompetence and bad planning, wrote “it was pure bloody murder. Douglas Haig should have been hung, drawn and quartered for what he did on the Somme. The cream of British manhood was shattered in less than 6 hours.” This suggests that he wanted Haig to be punished due to his loss of so many of his own men, but also due to his own resentment towards him.
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Ron Pattison Dotolo P3 Europe since 1815 8 November 2009 Storm of Steel The Storm of Steel is the memoir of an average German solider during the Great War. Ernst Junger, the main character of the memoirs, is a young, patriotic, and very self-aware young man who in encountering a new experience in his life. Through Junger’s eyes, we follow not only a young man as he progresses and learns during his experiences in World War I, but we also get an in depth view of a war the forever altered the course of history. Junger’s graphic and descriptive explaination of his observations provides the reader with both the horrors and fascination of a world war. It also provides incite on war displaying how a major national conflict connects
Most of what you do, at least that which truly matters, will be a leap into the unknown” (Waggener 50). In war our human weakness eventually shows itself. When soldiers are in the midst of the chaos of war, sometimes they feel they have fallen short, although they have given their best effort, “Norman Bowker remembered how he had taken hold of Kiowa’s boot and pulled hard, but how the smell was simply too much, and how he’d backed off and in that way had lost the Silver Star. He wished he could’ve explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so brave as he wanted to be”, (O’Brien
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The bombing of Dresden in World War II was one of the destructive events in history, killing more than 30,000 people. Kurt Vonnecut was an American soldier who experienced this first handed when he was captured and held at this city. As result of this event, he wrote the anti war novel Slaugtherhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death, where the main character, Billy, a American soldier who was also captured and experienced the bombing of Dresden. In the book, Vonnecut condemns war by using black humor, a genre of satire that make fun of serious, to describes events such as death and being captured in the war to shows stupidity and illogicalness of war. Vonnecut first points out the meaningless of the war by describing events around Roland
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David Mazahreh English 110 Professor Bliss The Hero and the Villain The history of mankind was never short of wars and battles. During that chaos, many controversial characters were widely known by posterity. Those controversial characters were thought to be heroes because they won many battles as leaders with daringness, or they saved many people’s lives. They were also thought to be villains because they did many inhuman slaughters. A true historical bio has never been accomplished.