Originally, young British soldiers had enlisted for the war with enthusiasm. ... Soldiers could spent days in the front line facing artillery fire and machine guns. ... Three hundred and six British and commonwealth soldiers were executed this way. In contrast, Germany only executed 25 of its soldiers and America executed none.... "Shell-shocked soldiers lacked "fiber"(Real 105). ...
The War had won, and would go on winning.""1 These are the words of Edmund Blunden, a British soldier who survived the Battle of the Somme, who came to the realization that nobody could claim victory in the twentieth-century mass warfare, because both winners and losers paid a high price. ... The soldiers that served in the war were hit especially hard by the horror of war. Erich Maria Remarque, a German soldier vividly portrays the carnage of World War II: "We have become wild beasts . ... Mustard agent was first introduced during the latter part of the First World War and caused lung and ...
That this was accepted by many, was partly because the war was seen as an adventure, and perhaps because the last war where there was mass recruitment was almost one hundred years previous, the majority of those fighting in the interlude being well-trained career soldiers. ... The earlier sources provoke Victorian attitudes towards duty, leading to the enrolling of over two million volunteer troops into the British armed services from 1914 - 1916, while source C plays on the moral decency of the reader, calling for a halt to the foul deeds committed by the ape (representing Germany) that has ...
Some scholars believe that British troops would have been in Constantinople if they tried a final attempt to pass the Dardanelles because of the conditions of the Turkish soldiers and ammunition. ... First of all, the text tells the general view of the war from a Turk's -- the author's -- point of view and how the Turks lost a lot of soldiers in the war. Then, the author explains how Germans' moves were related with the number of soldiers lost that both sides had during the war. ... In his opinion Gorgulu thinks that the Germans wanted to control the battle over that region beca...
The Italian soldiers in "In Another Country- are the heroes because they were not afraid to die. ... The narrator for the story is in Milan for rehabilitation where he meets an Italian Soldier, a champion fencer, whose hand has been wounded while at war that is also in rehabilitation. ...
There are many movies made illustrating many different aspects of American wars, good and bad. ... Furthermore, when the king decided to discipline the unruly Americans by forcing them to keep British soldiers in their homes, they protested that he had given them no choice in the matter and were met with more hostility. ... Rick Shroder stars as Major Charles Whittlesey, a soldier who received the coveted Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroic actions near the close of World War I. A civilian-turned-soldier, Whittlesey proved to be a brilliant and fearless major when he and his troops fo...
The character, who is referred to as "him" by Cummings, is the soldier who is shot by the Japanese bullet. ... In another anti-war protest poem, "my sweet old etectera," Cummings reveals the discrepancy between those who support war and the true feelings of soldiers. Despite popular belief of the United State's post-World War One nationalism, soldiers didn't live a picturesque, glorious life. ... However, the only person who doesn't share the same image is the soldier himself, who lies dreaming of the smile of his "Etcetera". ... Because of his background as a WWI soldier, Cu...
"What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge" (Tzu 77). ... One of these, completed by the Knowlton's Rangers, was an operation of sabotage; to cut off support for the British, who had been receiving soldiers from the Germans. Congress approved this mission and sent mercenaries to encourage this support to defect from the royal army, stating that the German prince was receiving money for each soldier killed in action. ...
In total about 173,000 soldiers and 75,000 workmen were raised from Algeria to help the French in the War effort . ... Against this the Allies put soldiers from Britain, Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, France, Dahomey and the Belgian Congo. ... The soldiers of Cameroon managed to put up a stiff defense, especially against the British and their colonial armies in the north. ... A good example of this is the attack on British reinforcements at Tanga in November 1914. ...
A good example is the story of the German "Kadavar Factories" which where said to house the corpses of British soldiers who were boiled down and used for glue. ... The motif common in such propaganda was of good versus evil. ... She will use her good looks and womanly wiles to draw information from you. ...
World War I, the first globally destructive conflict that the Western Civilization produced, has been the subject of various analysis, interpretations and reevaluations of the various causes that led to it. Initially, the guilt was placed upon Germany and its allies. Eventually, historical analysis...
The Warrior On October 27, 1858, in New York, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt gave birth to Theodore Roosevelt, her second child and first son. He was named after his father, Theodore Sr., and was sometimes called Thee or Teedie by his mother. He was a seventh generation Roosevelt. As a child and thro...
The Warrior On October 27, 1858, in New York, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt gave birth to Theodore Roosevelt, her second child and first son. He was named after his father, Theodore Sr., and was sometimes called Thee or Teedie by his mother. He was a seventh generati...
The Growth and Implementation of Hitler's Continental Expansionist Foreign Policy Program One of the most interesting historiographical debates about the Second World War concerns the nature of Hitler's foreign policy. Everyone knows that the Second World War was horrible, even worse than the First, but it has yet to be unequivocally decided what exactly was Hitler's role in bringing about such a catastrophe. The most important issue relates to the question of whether or not Hitler had evolved a clear and coherent foreign policy by the time he assumed office and ...
