provide cover for soldiers during battle in WW1 seeing that most battlefields were open field & farms, so soldiers had little or no cover from rifle fire. After suffering thousands of casualties, soldiers began to dig into the ground creating cover. Over the months the trenches grew & evolved to hold barracks & equipment. Within a few months trenches were equipped with all essentials to ensure there was no need to leave them unnecessarily. Trenches were first dug by hand but soon soldiers would
was life in the trenches like? This is a question you might ask yourself after learning more about WW1 and its exploits. Soldiers did not have an easy life to live in the trenches and everyday just grew harder. Trenches are basically long narrow ditches that were dug by soldiers for shelter from enemy fire. Back in WW1, the trenches became a place where soldiers would live and sleep with poor living conditions. The way the trenches in WW1 were set up was with the German trenches on one side and
Terrence Lightfoot WW1 Battles Research Project 10/20/15 The Battle of the Somme was fought from July 1, 1918, to November 19, 1918 between the armies of the French and British against the German Empire. British and French armies met at the Somme River in France, which was 125 miles northwest of Verdun. It was one of the largest and bloodiest battles in history, resulting in over a million men being killed or wounded. It was the first considerable offensive of WW1, and was fought to alter the
Have you ever wonder how difficult war can be and what you have you have to go through able to survive and the brutality of war in general? WW1 was the first modern warfare because it was the time when people were inventing modern invention such as planes, tank, etc. and the guns were more accurate now. WW1 was very brutal and many people died and it changed people throughout the war. WW1 was a brutal war it was the time were technologies were modern. The brutality and modernity if the battle changed
to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient tomorrow." Maybe the generals of World War 1 (WW1) should have been told this when they used cavalry when they were outdated and rifles and machine guns were the weapons of this war. They found this out the hard way which sparked the time of technological innovations and changes that was WW1. The three technological innovations I will write about are machine guns, planes and tanks. On the one hand, machine guns could be said to be significant
Suicide in the Trenches War, a slaughter of men that has gone on for hundreds & thousands of years. One of the most gruesome wars was WW1 which lasted for 4 years, 28 Jul. 1914 – 11 Nov. 1918. In this devastating war, the total number of casualties includes about 11 million military personnel and about 7 million civilians. Many of those soldiers were young men. The poem “Suicide in the trenches” written by Siegfried Sassoon tells what the harsh trenches had being like and how many soldiers became
a success. However French continued to fail from here as the British hesitated to fill the gap they had made in the German lines in a wait for re-inforcements: by which time the Germans had filled the gap. A pointless battle which lasted only three days. Other so-called battles like these took place while Joffre insisted on 'one more attack'. This resulted in 50,000 French being lost in February (advancing only 500 yards) in Champagne. 60,000 were lost at St Mihiel, and 120,000 were lost in May near
By reading both “All Quiet on the Western Front” and “Testament of Youth”, we learn that World War 1 had a tremendous effect, not only on the men in the trenches; but essentially on everyone; of all genders throughout Europe and the World. Vera Brittains, “Testament of Youth” tells the tale of her experiences working as a V.A.D (Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurse) in many areas, however in chapters five and six, she is stationed in London. She describes, in vivid details the struggles of working as a
approaches; Owen writes from the point of view of someone who was involved in the war. Weir writes about mainly one soldier affected by the war. Owen had joined the army in 1915 yet was hospitalized in May 1917 experiencing shell shock. Owen, in the long run, came back to the war, however, was tragically killed days before the war finished. He is currently thought of as one of Britain's most noteworthy war poets. `Exposure' gives a direct image of life in the trenches during WW1. By the winter
Mueller, whiteness extreme brutality and bloodshed unfold around them, as the war begins to take its toll on each character one by one, fighting in the trenches of WWI. Remarque tells the audience of the intensity of the war, as well as the horrors that the characters experience fighting in the trenches. All Quiet on the Western Front tells the story of WW1 as it really was. WWI would forever transform the way wars would be fought, introducing new technology, such as aircraft, tanks, machine guns, and