Shaun Chaban World War 1: The Life in Trenches World War 1 is perhaps best known for being a war fought in trenches (Grolier 94), ditches dug out of the ground to give troops protection from enemy artillery and machine-gun fire. In Erich Remarque's novel All Quite on the Western Front that is exactly how he described trench warfare. Remarque showed World War 1 as a war fought in trenches, which he depicted well leaving out only a few minor details. The trenches spread from the East to the West. By the end of 1914 trenches stretched all along the 475 miles front (Grolier 94) between the Swiss border and the Channel coast.
Although conceived by many as one of Britain’s worst military outings in their history, which it was, as source H says “it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the Somme was an essential precondition to success in the last two years of the war”. The casualty list of the British army in Somme was some 400,000 men (over 2/3 of the total allied toll) and the tactics used at the start of Somme were somewhat ridiculous, these facts alone leave a stale taste in the mouth and any comprehension of a British victory can been seen as absurd, however when looking at the Somme from a distance it has to be seen that the British and French forces did triumph over the Germans (who alone had suffered roughly the same casualty list as Britain and France combined) as in February and March 1917 the Germans abandoned their positions on the old Somme battlefield. Source H agrees with this statement stating that the battle of Somme weakened the German army while the BEF force gained experience and improved its tactics which would help in the last year of the war and thus save lives. As well as saying this source H also states that “commanders at all levels could certainly have conducted the battle more effectively and thus saved lives”, this is backed by source G which states that “whatever harm kitchener’s volunteers wished the Germans, it is he harm they thereby suffered that remains in the British memory”. The morale boost which is stated in source I also could have helped the BEF with the source stating that the German prisoners often asked the satisfied question “don’t you think we have done very well?”, however this can be debated as they would not have known the huge loss of troops on ground.
"Gettysburg The Movie" History Vs. Facts The epic American Civil War film "Gettysburg" released in 1993 was based upon the book written by author Michael Sharra "The Killer Angels" 1975. The story is told through a few of the major players in the battle, mostly general's Confederate commanding General Robert E. Lee, Con. General James Longstreet and Union Col. Joshua Lawerence Chamberlain. Although there were many courageous men during the fight Michael Sharra chose to illuminate these indivduals stories. The battle of Gettysburg was one of the turning points of the Civil War in America.
They need to not let men die needlessly there were over ’57,470 casualties’ on the first day and the land gained only came to 25 metres. The Battle had no help in breaking the stalemate but helped us realise we need to prepare and execute our plans much better, the planners had no idea how hard the barbed wire was going to be to get through without the shell fire which often made it ‘in a worse tangle than before’. By 1918 the RAF had been formed, and was much stronger than the Royal flying Corps,
More than eighteen thousand civilian and military personnel died. Most of the city was destroyed as a result of the raids. Why were these raids so much more devastating than the raids on Hamburg, Cologne, and Berlin? The ideal weather conditions, construction and materials of buildings, lack of anti-aircraft artillery, and poor infrastructure combined to create ideal conditions for Allied Bomber Command to devastate over five square miles of Dresden. As a military target, Dresden was the only major city not bombed due to it’s location deep inside the heart of Saxony.
Historians have much to gain by analyzing the diaries of individuals throughout the war. For the duration of my education of the Civil War, I have become accustom to learning when and where the battles occur, the generals in charge and the amount of men that fought valiantly at each of them. Throughout the diary many battles and skirmishes are mentioned that Pvt. Gallaher takes part in. Within each of these he mentions the hardships that he and his men endure, as well as the simple pleasures that he is blessed with throughout the war.
Comprising two related actions, firstly at Chateau-Thierry from 3-4 June and then at Belleau Wood itself from 6-26 June, the Battle of Belleau Wood saw the re-capture by U.S. forces of the wood on the Metz-Paris road taken at the end of May by German Seventh Army forces arriving at the Marne River around Chateau-Thierry and held by four divisions as part of the German Aisne offensive. Chateau-Thierry formed the tip of the German advance towards Paris, some 50 miles south-west. Defended by U.S. Second and Third Divisions dispatched at the behest of the French by AEF Commander-in-Chief Jack Pershing, the Americans launched a counter-attack on 3-4 June with the assistance of the French Tenth Colonial Division; in a spirited action together
I personally believe in the latter. Some would say that, due to the fact that Russell was Britain’s first “real” war reporter, he was able to be brutally honest about the war for a certain period of time, leading up to November 25th 1954, when he was instructed by the editor of the times, John Delane, to concentrate an assault upon Lord Raglan. Aside from this, however, Russell’s brutally honest reports helped to expose the failures of the war, and as a result, public opinions towards the war hit a new low. Due to these reports, which even reached Queen Victoria, photographer, Fenton, was sent to the Crimea in order to portray the war in contrast to the harsh criticisms within Russell’s articles. Due to this, I do not believe that any of Fenton’s pictures can be used as an accurate reportage of the Crimean war, although he did have a good reputation as a photographer, even photographing Queen Victoria and her family at times.
The dates range from the late 1890s up to the mid 1900s. These tombstones were for soldiers along with their loved ones whom died during the era’s of World Wars I and II. The admiration and respect for this cemetery rises once more. The cemetery reminds me of the time I visited Arlington cemetery in Washington D.C. ; only to an extremely smaller scale and no eternal flame, of course. The tombstones showed signs of wear from the rough weather conditions here in Missouri, but they were still in better condition than the gravestones in the Civil War memorial.
Their artillery shells were nearly infinite. Weapons lay nearly everywhere over no man’s land, because of the 100,000 lives lost after the French’s attempt at over taking the Germans. Although tragic, this was helpful to the Canadians; there was no worrying whatsoever that a single soldier would somehow end up unarmed. The Canadian’s would be fighting over an open grave yard because of the pervious failed attack and claimed so many