This source is useful to me because it is coming from a man’s point of view; that was actually there and saw what went on ‘It was pure bloody murder. Douglas Haig should have been hung, drawn and quartered for what he did on the Somme’ this tells me that the soldier was deeply
For his battlefield he chose the fortress-ringed city of Verdun, a position, he correctly believed, so essential to the French that France would fight to the last man to hold it. He hoped to lure French forces into the narrow, dangerous salient, laughter them with artillery fire and thus “bleed France to death.” He was the first commander to state clearly that the aim of an offensive was attrition though he did not tell his field army commander, the Crown Prince, this. On February twenty-first, the German barrage began and for the next ten months both sides threw soldiers and shells at each other in a nightmare of death. The German Army bled as well. As Verdun was a symbol of life for France, it's fall became a moral necessity for the prestige of the German Army.
Tuesday 13th December Why was the Battle of the Somme such a disaster for the British Army? On July 1st 1916, a battle commenced that made the bloodiest day inn British military history. 60,000 British men died on the first day of fighting, with a third of them perishing in the first hour. The aim of this essay is to examine factors of the battle and decide which one contributed the most to the failure of the battle. The plan for the Battle of the Somme was to assemble a huge new army of soldiers.
But to read it as autobiography is to miss some of its complexity. The final act of the novel consists of the preparation for Amiens and the battle itself. Before being sent off, the soldiers are given a pep talk by a brigadier-general who recounts to them the news of the sinking of the Llandovery Castle, a clearly identified hospital ship that was torpedoed by the Germans in clear contravention of the international laws of war, a “wanton act of barbarism.” It is this information that steels our protagonist and his comrades to go into the bloodbath of Amiens energized by feelings of revenge. But when our hero survives and is sent wounded to Britain he encounters a hospital orderly who says of the Llandovery Castle: “That was bloody murder, brother. Our officers oughta be shot for that.
Charles Yale Harrison’s novel Generals Die in Bed strips away the misconception that war and is glorious and in doing so strongly conveys to the reader the horrible reality that was the First World War Harrison emphasises the harshness of this reality through the constant bombardment of gruesome and desensitising events experienced by the Narrator. The dramatic degree of different between the fictional views held by the public and the truth is highlighted by the contrast of the soldier’s experiences and society’s false impressions. Furthermore the novel shows war for what it truly is, a dominant force with the power to consume, transform and scar all that stands in it’s way. Through GDIB the reader is given a raw and truthful depiction of the
For Russia, Stalingrad gave hope to the people, causing a surge of morale and support thereafter. It showed the world that Russia was a formidable fighting force, capable of detailed planning and coordination. By 1945, the Red Army had swept across Eastern Europe in a storm of anger and vengeance, looking to cause the same brutality that had been inflicted on them in Stalingrad. The Battle of Stalingrad had a tremendous impact on Russian and German morale; crippling the spirits of German citizens equally as much as the army. A German report on public opinion in 1943 states, “…the enemy’s strength must have been underestimated,
He pointed out that the war was a waste, and they were only there for their country, not for the unnecessary killing and also that fighting and killing is mentally tolling. He captures all of this when he writes one of last lines, “War is brutish, inglorious, and a terrible waste. Combat leaves and indelible mark on those who are focused to endure it. The only redeeming factors were my comrades’ incredible bravery and their devotion to each other. Marine Corps training taught us to kill efficiently and to try to survive.
War can affect many people on different levels; be it inspire them or discourage them. Vonnegut took what happened to him in World War II and wrote Slaughterhouse 5 with the hope that it would motivate some form of movement against war. Within the story, Vonnegut inputs his antiwar opinions. As a member of the US Army, Vonnegut served in the war and suffered the tragedy of being a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. This consumed his inner thoughts to the point where he wanted to try and relive some of the worst interactions that occurred so that he could include them in his book.
Dunkirk was one of the bloodiest battles in world war. Germans launched a massive attack to the west on May the 10th 1940. Six weeks later it had swept through Belgium, Holland and northern France. The battle in Dunkirk involved the Germans verse the British and the France. In my essay I will explain the two main interpretation of Dunkirk for Britain and its people.
World War I began because of many obstacles that America would have to sustain in order for the war to diminish. On May 7, 1915, the German army sank a ship called the Lusitania. At this time, 1,198 people lost their lives and included 128 American people. This ship was carrying war shipments from the United States to England. The passengers on the ship knew there may be a possible attack on the ship but Woodrow Wilson condemned this attack as illegal and inhuman.