War Essays

In the movie All Quiet on the Western front, Paul is morphed from an innocent child into a war veteran who has a new look on society. Paul used to have a carefree life where he was able to be a kid, but when he enlisted into the army it …

World War I introduced many of the weapons in our world today. Many of these weapons caused great destruction yet at the same time saved ours and many other countries. This essay describes in detail just a few of these powerful weapons. Tank The tank is a heavily armoured track-laying …

War Poem Comparison – Fall In, Suicide In the Trenches and Who’s for the Game? This essay will look at three poems from the period before and during the First World War, each giving different impressions it. Fall In by Harold Begbie, a journalist, author, poet and playwright, was written …

People’s attitudes to war have changed dramatically over the last century. Before world war one, war was viewed honourable and patriotic, with people feeling that it was their duty to defend their country at any cost. Pacifism was linked with cowardice. Therefore poetry written before the world war didn’t contain …

Many of the young offices who enlisted in both armies saw the war as a noble task, a journey filled with honour and glory. ‘There was only one catch’, many of the men would suffer mental and physical effects from what they had seen and been part of. These effects …

During World War 1, the soldiers of the Western Front faced many extreme dangers and difficulties. Troops on all sided suffered and endured the horrific conditions of trench warfare, which claimed the lives of millions, and traumatised millions more. Dangers and difficulties that soldiers on the Western Front endured included: …

The setting of the poem contributes greatly to the meaning. The title, “Casualty-Mental Ward” is essential to understanding the setting. I personally think that the setting takes place in a mental ward itself and that the speaker is a patient there. This can be seen by looking at line 16, …

Arguably the main theme of “Captain Corelli’s mandolin” is that of foreign occupation through war and its dehumanising effects on the characters of the novel. De Bernires explores the psychological and emotional development of characters as they are exposed to the extremities of war and how this affects not only …

During and before the First World War, between the year 1914 and 1918, there were many recruitment banners, recruitment poems, and many other ways to encourage young men to go to war. When the war began in August 1914, Britain relied only on a small professional force, unlike most other …

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 over one family owing another family money. We devised a play that showed in war there …