However in 1916 the first reporters were allowed to go and report their findings on the front line but only the good news for e.g. how well the soldiers were fighting and the heroism that was being showed by the army. ... The government also used books as a method of propaganda because no matter what is going on people will always read books because for many people it is a favoured pass time and so the government published many books and articles about the war that was going on across the world, none of which however would tell the truth about the war and what was actually happening in the f...

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This combination of awareness and honesty would render Remarque both praised by many for his literary genius and despised by the ultra-Nationalist Nazi regime - the latter held book burnings of All Quiet on the Western Front after exiling Remarque to Switzerland. ... Using third-person narration, it is learned that Paul died in October of 1918 - only one month prior to the Armistice finally ending the War - on a day otherwise so calm that the army report merely stated: "All quite on the Western Front."" ...

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History Coursework - World War One 1) Sources A, B and C are war recruitment posters published by various governments with the aim of influencing more people to volunteer for armed service in the war. Sources A and B are an earlier type of source, depending on the patriotic fervour that swept Britain at the war's outset, portraying enlistment as a duty to the country and empire. The posters themselves being of an accusatory nature, demanding from the reader "What did you do in the war?" and that they should "Go!", the fighting taking a crusade-like facade in which the only way...

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