The official image of the Australian soldier is one of nobility and just, however this image is somewhat ill-informed. ANZAC’s were not always disciplined and clean, quite the opposite. At Gallipoli the conditions were very poor and the fighting was extremely difficult. However, the attitude of ANZAC soldiers to the war was one of determination and sometimes humour. These ideals shaped all the writings and articles about the ANZAC’s and created the ANZAC spirit.
Approximately 3,000 lives were sadly lost during this horrible attack. Not only did the people on the planes die, there also was many firemen & police men terribly lost. During the attack many people volunteered to help save some lives & lost theirs instead. Innocent children were brutally murdered & punished for a stupid war. Those people paid the price for other's crimes.
How does Owen portray the horrors of war in Dulce et Decorum Est? “Sweet and honourable it is, to die for one’s country” World War I was an abominable ordeal that shocked the world, caused over 16 million people to lose their lives and millions more to suffer for years. Wilfred Owen has described so horrifically the horrors of war, each one seems to grow in significance until everything blurs together into a foul and futile torment that will haunt the dreams of every man for all their lives. Throughout the poem Owen attempts to eliminate the misconception that it is “sweet and honourable... to die for one’s country”, as the title of the poem suggests, through his use of vivid imagery, descriptive language and first person narrative. In the first stanza, Owen presents the idea that the personal struggles faced every moment on the front line are extremely underestimated, immeasurably terrifying and “obscene”.
Compare and contrast the effects of World War 1 on Africa and Middle East. Although the causes for the Great War were laid down years before, but the immediate spark was the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, an Austrian hungry prince. Due to the alliances amongst the countries, the Great war which had initially started between Serbia and Austria had engulfed the whole world into the War. The main causes of the Great War were imperialism, race for arms, nationalism and the alliance system. Typically, when one thinks of Great War, they think of extensive fighting in Europe but in reality the Great War had numerous battles in the colonized states where there were clashes between Triple Alliance and the Allies.
The Triple Entente tried to defeat Germany by destroying its allies. Turkey was one of Germany’s allies, so the British formed a plan to capture the “Gallipoli Peninsula,” so that they would have control of the Dardanelles waterway and that would allow them to invade the capital of Turkey, Constantinople (currently Istanbul). This would also allow them to have a supply route through Turkey to Russia. The battle lasted for eight months, from the European summer through to the end of winter, from 25 April 1915 to 9 January 1916. Winston Churchill, the Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty of Britain at the time, was in command, and who came up with the idea.
In result of this, this cause loads of deaths. To conclude the actions from the officers were a very important factor in causing a high death toll in World War One. This was mainly down to their naivety, ineptness and how out of touch they really were. There loss of seeing things for how they really were, was another reason why there army lost so many of their men. In some cases it seemed the army were being sent in blind, as the officers refused to change their old fashioned
Haig only intention was to breakthrough to get the German trenches and defeat the army once and for all. The battle took more than 1,000,000 lives and as it was the bloodiest battle throughout the history, it is said that more than 20,000 soldiers died in the first hour and more than 60,000 casualties on the first day. The soldiers that took part in this insidious war were as young as 14 and had no training and they did not know that they’ll die so young. The Somme ended in bloodshed and the human cost was very high, 420,000 British soldiers and 200,000 French soldiers had died for their country, almost as many as the Germans added together. This insidious war The Somme was the most tragic moment for Britain and British history.
You can see where a problem would arise here. The pilots would have no idea who they are dropping their bombs on, just what coordinates it is. Bombs were dropped on US soldiers everyday but more vital, local South Vietnamese. America might not have understood at the time but they were the biggest recruiter for their own enemy. Every village destroyed, brother killed, livestock murdered.
After the loss of 3 battleships on March the 18th, it was decided that the aid of the army would be required to defeat the forts that guarded the straits. This army had to fight in a very rugged, mountainous landscape and in horrible conditions. It was the planning behind these circumstances that greatly influenced the campaign and changed it from a planned “quick invasion”, to a bloody seven month struggle. Troops were landed on the shores of the Gallipoli peninsula in hopes to overrun the Ottoman defences that were preventing the Allied ships from passing through the Dardanelles. The maps provided for Allies were very misleading and didn't show the land effectively.
How far do you agree that the Battle of the Somme was a complete disaster for the British Army? The Battle of the Somme was indeed dreadful and appalling and could definitely be seen as a complete disaster because of the number of deaths caused. There were however some positive aspects that came out of it. The Battle began on July 1, 1916. The purpose of the battle was to take the pressure off the French army at Verdun.