Trench Warfare Essay Examples

The film Gallipoli takes place during World War I’s Gallipoli campaign in 1915. The two main characters in the film are Archy and Frank. Archy and Frank are from Western Australia and they both enlist to fight in Gallipoli. Before the war both Archy and Franks goal was to be the fastest runner in Australia […]

Two polar opposite battles, one on Australian territory, one half way around the world. One against the Turkish, one against the Japanese. Different battles, of which both saw soldiers through some of the worst events and situations anyone has ever had to face, each soldier had a different experience, but all of them alike, went […]

Military technology and strategies have constantly evolved throughout history. However, within the last few centuries, the world has seen warfare evolve at such a rapid rate, that it seems no two wars are fought the same. With ever-changing technologies, soldiers’ duties and skills have had to adapt along with them. Yet, soldiers are not the […]

Source A is an extract from a British textbook witch was written by Craig Mair in 1982 (after the war) for the textbook (Britain at War 1914-1919) for use in British schools. Source A is a secondary source written by some one after the war. It was written for a textbook by a historian who […]

IntroductionWorld War 1 was like nil that had of all time happened in the universe before. Although it was inevitable. the hideous loss of life was pointless. Almost no-one except the politicians governing agreed with it. which has been proven by soldier’s journals. and most famously the football lucifer between the British and the Germans […]

From your reading of the poems ‘Attack’, ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ and the viewing of the film ‘Saving Private Ryan’ discuss the above statement. In your response you should quote examples from the poems and instances from the film. “With bombs and guns and shovels and battle-gear, Men jostle and climb to meet the bristling […]

A stalemate had developed between the armies of the Central Powers and the Allies. This stalemate lasted for almost four years, taking millions of lives. But in 1918, for whatever reason, the stalemate ended after both armies made effective attacks on the other’s trenches. World War One was the testing arena for a number of […]

I do not believe that the First World War was great because several million people lost their lives fighting for four years over for a few strips of land which were no more than a mile wide. A lot of people who came back from the war were badly injured and lots had limbs missing, […]

It is midnight, there are distant bangs and surprisingly the giant rats are eating away at some other soldiers’ boots. I am writing this brief diary because I don’t know if I will survive this mess. I haven’t done much in life but I want anyone who reads this to know what the soldier, Mr […]

In mid-September 1914 German troops dug into the high ground over looking the river Aisne, in northern France. After heavy losses in vain attempts to take the German line, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was forced into a deadlock; they could not get to the enemy. This was the beginning of the Western Front. What […]

World war one continued for four years across a vast and stretching from the English Channel to the northern Swiss border. In 1914 the prediction was that the war would be over by Christmas. At the beginning of the war, The Germans thought they could capture France before invading Russia therefore preventing a war on […]

In my opinion I think that the poems, ‘In Flanders Fields’, ‘Break of day in the trenches’ and ‘Dulce et decorum est’ do teach the modern reader a variety of different things, therefore to say: “the modern reader learns little from them” is an inaccurate conclusion to draw. I think the modern reader can learn […]

The First World War, what can you expect? Dirty, horrible conditions, rat infested trenches, disinfected water, intense boredom and the repetition of machine guns viciously rattling in the distance. These are the predicaments that the soldiers had to cope with in the deadly war. Though there was a battle on between the Germans and the […]

‘Journey’s End’ is R. C. Sheriff’s portrayal of life during the First World War. First performed in 1928, the play is based on his own experiences serving in the army during wartime. In the play, he revives the conditions that he and his comrades lived and fought in and the challenges they had to face. […]

R. C Sherriff was born in the 1896 to a middle class family. He went to Kingston Grammar School and then went to university at the New College in Oxford, where upon leaving university he joined his father’s insurance business. But shortly after the start of the war he joined the army, he applied for […]

On July 1 1916, in one of the largest military operations to ever be executed, the British army entered into the bloodiest battle it has ever known. This was the battle of the Somme, a conflict that is etched into the collective memory of Britain as a tragedy. The first day on the Somme, the […]

Up until world war one Britain had played little part in any major battles or conflicts. It wasn’t until occurrences at the Somme that the British population became aware of the realities of war and it was for this reason that some people still consider it the greatest military disaster known to man. The initial […]

1. The message that the cartoonist and the headliner are trying to give is that the British army with its big fist is stopping Germany dead in its tracks and hitting it right on the nose. The expression on the mans face is shocked and bewildered. The cartoonist has drawn a face of the Kaiser […]

Uses sources 15.H, 15. I to explain why the British suffered such huge losses on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. From three sources I am trying to find out why the British suffered such a huge loss on the first day of ‘the battle of the Somme’. Sources 15. I and […]

Following on from the battle of Marne (September 1914) there was a deadlock between the opposing forces fighting it out in France. This deadlock surprised people by making the war carry on for a number of years, until finally ending before December 1918. The majority of people think that this is due to the poor […]

I am lying here in hospital with the memories of the trenches and the attack that made me end up here still too painfully fresh in my mind. I wake up every night in the early hours screaming, as the pictures of Pure Hell that have made up the past years of my life run […]

A Stalemate occurs when neither side can win quickly with an outright victory. This is what happened in WW1 between the Allied forces and the Germans for several reasons. One of which was on account of the failure of the Schlieffen plan which was a German movement to take over Paris, however the BEF caught […]