We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy War is a unique feature in American society. It is an institution that is entwined into the very nature of the American Republic. Our nation is a country that was birthed in a revolutionary […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy 1. How do these three posters persuade men to enlist? Source A defines the two main roles of men and women during the time of the War; Men were expected to go to work […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy These two war poems, although written about the same subject, are very different. The Charge of the Light Brigade is about honouring the brave soldiers that were brave enough to go to war, whereas […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Towards the end of the Second Boer war in 1899, people had blamed the failure of the Boer War on imperialism; the policy of extending the rule of authority of an empire to foreign […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Modern warfare is totally different from the wars fought in the past era. Already, the end of the twentieth century is round the corner, the world has seen several great wars waged by the […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy 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. […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Propaganda is a very powerful thing deliberately used to control or alter people’s attitudes, and those whose attitudes have already been controlled or altered, produce predictable behaviour. Propaganda does not depend on violence or […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy In our war play we tell the story of how two families go to war over something small that soon becomes something big. In our play we had two families and the war began […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy In this piece of course-work I am going to look at a few poems that are based around the trouble of war. I will first write a few lines about the poets that I […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy 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 […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy In many sources the artillery had not broken the barbed wire and when the soldiers had to go over the top they couldn’t get past the barbed wire and the German machine guns cut […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy 1. The word ‘Blitz’ itself is a shortened form of the German word ‘Blitzkrieg’ meaning lightening war, it means a heavy bombing attack from the air. It is often used to describe the German […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy War poetry brings history to life by telling us both the private and public thoughts of men and women who have experienced conflict between nations or indeed within nations. War poetry is among the […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy In the last four lines of Sassoon’s “prelude: The Troops” the poem can be seen to turn full circle from the bitter, angry voice of Sassoon grieving for the war dead back to a […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy During the Great War, there was a huge change in warfare mainly between the end of 1994 and march 1918. these ranged from technological advances to tactical advances. (these changes resulted in a phenomenal […]