Letter 1: Dear Mother, How are things in Sydney going? It has been 2 months since I had left Australia on the 5th of October. I am very excited to reach Egypt ready to have a crack at the war as well as get to see what all the fuss is over the pyramids. On the boat we have been having a great time many of us having competitions, singing songs, discussing what we think war will be like and having a joke. There is this one bloke that never stops talking and lucky me has to sleep next to him, although he is good company through the rough nights. We have been told that in Egypt we will be training and that it will take about 4 months. Through out the boat trip I have met a few lads who are about the same age as me. One of them came all the way from the Northern Territory to catch the boat. When we arrived in Egypt it was a relief to get of the boat and be able to walk on land. The pyramids are huge …show more content…
Lots of trenches are being flooded with water and were trying to find solutions to help with that. At the moment the best we have come up with is duckboards. One of my mates has left on leave and I have just received my letter say that I’ve been granted leave again I’ll be leaving on the on the 20th of September. Would you like anything while I’m over there? I just received my ANZAC biscuits their quite nice thanks to you for adding extra sugar this time. The battle of Passchendale has been going for 3 months now and its coming round to time for me to leave. I am quite desperate for it to finish before I leave because I don’t want to leave my mates behind and them be called into help because its very brutal and its not going very good on either side. Good news the battle finished just before I was set to leave. I have two days till I am leaving for London. I’ll let you know when I get to London. Hope you are okay, miss you lots. Love
In the history of modern western civilization, there have been few incidents of war, famine, and other calamities that severely affected the modern European society. The First World War was one such incident which served as a reflection of modern European society in its industrial age, altering mankind’s perception of war into catastrophic levels of carnage and violence. As a transition to modern warfare, the experiences of the Great War were entirely new and unfamiliar. In this anomalous environment, a range of first hand accounts have emerged, detailing the events and experiences of the authors. For instance, both the works of Ernst Junger and Erich Maria Remarque emphasize the frightening and inhumane nature of war to some degree – more explicit in Jünger’s than in Remarque’s – but the sense of glorification, heroism, and nationalism in Jünger’s The Storm of Steel is absent in Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front. Instead, they are replaced by psychological damage caused by the war – the internalization of loss and pain, coupled with a sense of helplessness and disconnectedness with the past and the future. As such, the accounts of Jünger and Remarque reveal the similar experiences of extreme violence and danger of World War I shared by soldiers but draw from their experiences differing ideologies and perception of war.
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The Gallipoli campaign was a military disaster but it is still one of the most important conflicts in which Australia was involved. On 25th April 1915 between 4:30 and 6:30 am the Gallipoli Peninsula was invaded by British, Australian and New Zealand forces. This was to start the long, hard weeks in which the troops were fighting for ground that the enemy controlled in Turkey. They were attempting to gain a supply route to Russia to aid them in repelling the German and Turkish soldiers from their country. I will be discussing the willingness of Australians to volunteer for the war effort and the love and respect they had for their Mother Country, England. I will also discuss how the young, naive soldiers arrived at war not knowing what warfare entailed. They were shocked by the conditions and casualties. I will also discuss the bravery that was shown by the ANZACS in the most dangerous conditions. I will conclude with my reasons of why the Gallipoli campaign holds such value and importance in Australian history and ideology.
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Good morning members of the Mt Gravatt show society. Did you know that World War Two is known as the most destructive war in history? It killed over 60 million people and had a lot more far-reaching impacts than any other wars. Published in 1988 in Inside Black Australia, an anthology of Aboriginal poetry, “The Black Rat” by a famous author and researcher, Iris Clayton, was a poem inspired by her father, Cecil, who fought in the war. The poem describes the depressing life of an Aboriginal soldier who helped off the German army at Tobruk at the time. The message in the poem is that the Aboriginal soldiers did not receive the benefits that European soldiers received, like farming lands after the war ended. This tells how unjust the European society was in Australia’s history.
At the conclusion of World War I, Australia saw the daybreak of great change. The diggers returned from war to search for employment and a country that resembled the tranquility of pre-war years. Men which returned able-bodied found it easier to settle and return to a ‘normal life’ however the numerous soldiers which experienced physical injuries and post traumatic stress disorder found settling arduous. The diggers encountered the atrocities of war, these experiences could only be understood by their compatriots. Upon return they were confronted with a mature Australia, one that had evolved with confidence and had taken place on the world stage. The diggers had to find their place in society and become accustomed to a peaceful way of life in the Australia that had been assured by British Prime Minister David Lloyd George as he stated that they would return to a “world fit for heroes,” he may have genuinely believed it as he felt a sense of accountability to provide the soldiers with a job and a stable country. As time went by and the war progressed diggers experienced the horrors of war,
Throughout World War I, thousands of Indians were conscripted to fight on behalf of their “King-Emperor” Great Britain, in France. Whilst the war was transpiring, propaganda ran rampant with the expectation of recruiting additional soldiers. It was considered a great honor to not only fight on behalf of one’s country, but moreover, to die while fighting for one’s country. These letters were exchanged during this time period; however, the letters were censored by the military. The Indian Soldiers’ Letters are overall an inadequate representation of war accounts during the First World War, due to censorship and cultural attitude of pride towards those serving in the war.
War is what keeps a nation from dying, it is the backbone of a country. This is the shown throughout the course of World War I, also known as “the war to end all wars.” World War I started in the summer of 1914. Archduke Francis Ferdinand, from the Austro – Hungarian Empire was visiting Bosnia. He was shot, along with his wife, Sofia, by a young man from the Black Hand, Gavrillo Princip. What were the three main factors that started World War I? There were three main underlying causes that started World War I: greed, nationalism, and militarism.
Early this morning I have received the news that General Joseph Joffre, our French commander in chief has decided to risk a counterattack. It is about one month into World War 1 and the German army had advanced deep into northeastern France, Paris and are preparing for a siege. He has assumed to have instructed the French armies in the centre and on the right, in the line southeast from Verdun to the Swiss border, were to remain in that position. The three armies on the left were to go on this offensive. These three armies are General Manoury’s French 6th Army and I Cavalry Corps advancing from Paris, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) advancing north east, and Franchet d’Esperey’s French
Paul Bäumer, the narrator and protagonist in All Quiet on the Western Front, is a character who develops extensively within the course of the novel. As a young man, he is persuaded to join the German Army during World War I. This three year ordeal is marked by Paul's short, but tragic trek into adulthood as he learns to cope with the trials and tribulations of war. In the wake of a struggle which claims millions, Paul loses his precious innocence as he is further isolated from society and engulfed by bloodshed. Paul's evolution throughout the novel is a result of his having to adapt in order to survive.
PTSD, or post-traumatic stress disorder, is a very common condition for people that experience traumatic events or participate in traumatic activities. Accordingly, people that serve in the military often become victims of post-traumatic stress disorder and its symptoms when they return home to civilian life after experiencing continuous danger, anxiety, and stress from the threat of either dying or being wounded while they were away at war. Soldiers return home to a society that fails to understand what they’ve been through. Authors often write about military or ex-military figures, so the people authors write about often display PTSD symptoms, allowing the reader to make connections between the figures and the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. For example, you can make these connections very clearly in Ernest Hemingway’s Soldiers Home, written about a soldier after World War I.
During his leave, perhaps Baumer’s most striking realization of the vacuity of words in his former society occurs when he is alone in his old room in his parents’ house. After being unsuccessful in feeling a part of his old society by speaking with his mother and his father and his father’s friends, Baumer attempts to reaffiliate with his past by once again becoming a resident of the place. Here, among his mementos, the pictures and postcards on the wall, the familiar and comfortable brown leather sofa, Baumer waits for something that will allow him to feel a part of his pre-enlistment world. It is his old schoolbooks that symbolize that older, more contemplative, less military world and which Baumer hopes will bring him back to his younger innocent ways.
The First World War, also known as the Great War, began in about 1914 and went on until 1918. This brutal war was an extremely bloody time for Europe and the soldiers that fought in it. These men spent their days in trenches holding down bases and taking in attacks from all sides. The soldier's only free time was consumed with writing letters to those on the home front. The letters they wrote contain heart breaking stories of how their days were spent and the terrible signs of war. The War consumed them and many of them let out all their true feelings of war in their letters to loved ones. In The First World War: A brief History With Documents we can find some of these letters that help us understand what the First World War might have been like for these young and desperate soldiers.
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