Coupled with the rhyme style: knive us'- nervous' , silent' - salient', the result is that the reader is left on edge, aware of the tension the soldiers are experiencing . ... It seems that the soldiers are once again forced into a state of nervous anticipation; of waiting for the attack. The result is that the reader is made aware that the mental and nervous state of these soldiers is being adversely affected by the War. ... (lines 35-39) suggest that the soldiers believe that only by fighting and winning the war will innocent and goodness be restored to the worl...

• Word Count: 2437
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The sexual exploits of the soldiers in war are legendary and the condoms were almost a necessity. ... From the narration he gives, American soldiers died in the Vietnam War and left behind the things that mattered to them. ... Nevertheless, in many ways the Vietnam War was different from other wars that American soldiers ever fought (O'Brien 17). ... Many people died in the war and brought grief to the nation for the demise of a large number of soldiers. ... In 'Ghost Soldiers,' O'Brien recalls that he was shot twice in Vietnam and managed to cheat death. ...

• Word Count: 2300
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

They'll soon forget their haunted nights; their cowed Subjection to the ghosts of friends who died,-- Their dreams that drip with murder; and they'll be proud Of glorious war that shatter'd all their pride . . . ... The lives of the survivors, be them soldiers or civilians, could never be the same after the war. ... Unfortunately, the young soldiers soon found out that war was not glamorous at all. ... Many battlefields were abundant with deep trenches that held fighting soldiers, dead and alive. ... Many of the soldiers would contract "trench feet," a condition caused ...

• Word Count: 2886
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

The operation worked like a charm and German forces concentrated behind Calais prepared to throw Patton's ghost army back into the sea. ... As a result, the soldiers were forced to wade inland through merciless machine gun and artillery fire. ...

• Word Count: 1844
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The book, Céline and His Vision, is a story of a French soldier whose skull gets cracked during World War I. ... Tall, thin, and weak, he made an unlikely soldier. ... Suddenly, Weary realizes that they are being watched by five German soldiers and a police dog. ...

• Word Count: 7795
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School

By the time of the First World War there was a whole new generation of young soldiers who not only could read but, very important, were able for the first time in the history of war to write letters home describing war in all its unheroic horror. ...

• Word Count: 10566
• Approx Pages: 42