Minor cuts and grazes caused by the barbed wire often became infected in the unsanitary conditions of the trenches. Snow, rain and freezing temperatures drastically slowed combat during the winter months. In hot, dry summers, lack of fresh water, scorching sun, and the stench of dead bodies and rubbish made trench life equally difficult. Gas Lack of surpluses Question two:…
When the soldiers would have to spend weeks in the wet mud, they would get a condition called “trench foot” which is a gangrene of the feet and toes from over exposure to wet weather. Often the soldiers would need to have their feet amputated. Also because of the dead bodies lying in the trenches as well as food scraps and poor sewerage, rats and flies would be terrible. Because of the bad conditions, the solders would get infectious diseases like Cholera and Dysentery. (Trench-warfare N.D)…
A lot of the causalities were due to the poor conditions of the trenches. Millions died because of the bullets used in the war because the bullets were muskets, and when the muskets would hit a person and shatter their bones into a million pieces. So there were a lot of amputees and surgical procedures to try to fix the damages done. Another major cause of death was the use of bayonets for example in all quiet on the western front paul talk about how gruesome being killed with a bayonet was. He said “we overhaul the bayonets- that is to say, the ones that have a saw on the blunt edge.…
Delbert Mann is the director of the 1979 version of “All quiet in the western front” movie and he is clearly a director that studied world war I very well as details ranging from extremely important to small minor details were included in the movie. The filming brilliantly captured the aspect of World War I and war in general. All the elements of the trenches were illustrated: the sand bags and trenches being in a curved shape like, huge rats crawling over and eating the unburied dead, the deep mud, the terror of poison gas attacks, machine-guns and artillery shells killing hundred of troops, grenades blowing limbs off, the loss of friends, amputations, death and destruction the war caused. In general, the troops uniforms and trenches were…
The movie I picked was The Trench written and directed by William Boyd. It was released in the United States November 22, 2000, and starred Paul Nicholls, Daniel Craig, and Julian Rhind-Tutt. The movie starts off in the summer of 1916 and shows the British Army getting ready for the Somme Offensive. It opens up with some information on the setting, “while hundreds of thousands of soldiers massed in the rear, a small force was left to hold the trenches” (The Trench).…
It gets so bad that some men would rather sleep out on the field, outside of the trenches at night, then attempt to sleep in wet clothing in the flooded trenches. We spent weeks in the trenches without showering because the war was growing increasingly difficult and we needed as many soldiers as possible out and fighting. There simply was no time for us to leave and shower. When we tried to sleep in the trenches during the night we were constantly awaken by rats running over us. The food here is disgusting, it doesn't even compare to the amazing breakfasts you always make me in the mornings!…
This photo specifically depicts the life soldiers had to live in during war. During WWI, in 1915, soldiers were forced to reply on trenches for protection and a way to attack other opponents. This photo and the short story, “The Devil’s Trap” by M. Stanley Bubien can relate to one another. The photo shows a man pressed against the wall in order to fire at the enemy. This is also mentioned in the short story when Bubien remarks, “We pressed our chests against slimy trench wall and, aiming over the top, we made quick work smashing the sign to splinters with rifle fire”(Bubien 7).…
Throughout the war, the conditions in the trenches contributed heavily to the negative nature of trench warfare. Source 3.2 outlines just one of these aspects of the conditions in the trenches, mud. Written by Sergeant P Boyd of the allied forces, the source expresses how the mud consumed the soldiers in every aspect of their life, and that it was inescapable. The primary source quotes “I have known those who can face enemy barrage without flinching, who still shiver at the memory of their experiences in the mud of Flanders”, expressing the feeling that mud caused the soldiers extreme misery all through the war and was more of a primary enemy then the other side. As this source was written in 1918, at the conclusion of the war, it can be said…
Even though diseases and death are inevitable to control over a war zone, the conditions for the soldiers of World War One was to blame because amended conditions would have lowered the casualties and some soldier’s diaries express the same interest. Medicine, disease, and death are a crucial aspect of World War One. Trench Warfare and ships seemed to be the most impacted. Trench warfare is a form of combat in which opposing sides fight a few hundred yards away in trenches that face each other. Soldier’s living conditions in the trench were insufferable.…
Stephanie Giles Professor Nagy 12/01/2016 Hemingway's life reflected in his Fiction No war is enjoyable, facile or undemanding both mentally and physically, no war ends without claiming casualties, some battles cease much sooner than others, some claim more casualties and see an extremely low morale throughout all sides of the war. World War I was a brutal war that is known for the incorporation of trench warfare in which soldiers from both sides dug massive trenches into the ground, protecting them from small arms fire as well as artillery. The soldiers lived in the trenches for months on end in which they became muddy, rat infested, disease riddled all while the occupants were fighting rifle and bayonet wielding enemies. PTSD or post traumatic stress disorder was not discovered or given the time of day in this time period which makes you wonder how deeply it affected the soldier's brains and future life decisions, Ernest Hemingway, a World War I ambulance driver being one of them.…
Behind the front lines was a mass supply of many things like training establishment’s stores, workshops, Head-quarters and many other elements that would be needed in a 1918 war. The first trenches in world war one were dug on the western front on September the 15th 1914. 2. What were the conditions like in the trenches?…
The film teaches that the conditions in the trenches were not all bad and that the conditions were bearable however the source collection of poems says otherwise. Sources 35 and 36 explain how the conditions in the trenches were horrible and therefore are described a lot differently from how the film portrays them. Firstly, source 35; ‘knock- kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed our way through the sludge.’ Unlike the film, this indicates for the first time that actually, the soldiers did not want to be there. Moreover, this poem describes to us the reality of the war and actually explains that not everything was as great as it was made out.…
The men who volunteered in 1914 to go to war thought it would be a great chance to see the world and go on an adventure. What they didn’t think of, or could have even possibly imagined were the horrible conditions they would face. There were many factors contributing to making the Gallipoli battlefield an unbearable place for all soldiers, some are: the constant noise, cramped unsanitary conditions, disease, foul smells, daily death of your mates, terrible food, lack of rest and thirst. The on going noise from bombing, shelling, machine guns, cannons, and rifle fire caused psychological and physiological problems for the soldiers.…
The perceptions of war were changed when confronted with the realities of World War One. This statement is significantly true as viewpoints of war were dramatically alternated which can be seen through primary sources from before, during and after World War One (herein known as WW1). The poem ‘Young Chivalry’ written by Alan Gross in 1914 is a source that represents the perception of war before the outbreak of WW1. Next, a letter written in 1915 by Vernon Keyworth Boynton to his sister, represents the insight on war during the midst of WW1. Lastly, the poem ‘Dolce et Decorum Est’ written by Wilfred Owen represents the outlook of war after the conclusion of WW1.…
On July 28, 1914, the world was changed forever when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, setting stage for the First world war. A relatively new form of warfare, known as trench warfare, would arise and cause one of the most brutal stalemates in history. Trench warfare was an inefficient way to fight World War One. Even though it’s main purpose was to defend soldiers, it caused outrageous amounts of casualties due to stalemates and scarred the landscape forever. Trench warfare is a form of warfare where two sides fight each other from semi-permanent trenches.…