War is all hell?

Question

How does this statement relate to WWI?

Answer 1

World War I

PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS.

Fantastic Resources.

http://www.historyteacher.net/APEuroCourse/WebLinks/WebLinks-WorldWar1.htm

Not the most logically-structured of web-sites but there is a wealth of fascinating material here.

http://www.misterdann.com/modlinkswwi.htm

http://www.greatwar.nl/

World War I

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWusaG.htm

Although the USA had strong ties with Britain, Wilson was concerned about the large number of people in the country who had been born in Germany and Austria. Other influential political leaders argued strongly in favour of the USA maintaining its isolationist policy. This included the pacifist pressure group, the American Union Against Militarism.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWW.htm

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook38.html

Read and listen to stories of the War from the people who lived it. Explore diaries, letters, scrapbooks, newspaper
cuttings, photos and keepsakes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/worldwarone/

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/

http://www.wfa-usa.org/new/links.cfm

An Internet History of The Great War

http://www.worldwar1.com/

Answer 2

The statement "war is all hell" relates directly to the Great War of 1914-18 because of the unique nature of that conflict. The war went on unending, day and night, day after day. Prior to that time armies "campaigned" but went into "winter quarters" (like Washington at Valley Forge) when the weather turned bad.

Likewise, there were horrible new weapons that had never been employed before. These included aerial bombs, poisons gas, flame throwers, and submarines, to name just a few.

Conscription created mass armies of millions like had never been seen before. And those, along with the new technology to feed, equip, and transport them, made the war a war of peoples against peoples rather than states against states.

War thus became "total war" as both sides sought to crush rather than merely defeat the other. And they did so by waging war against civilian populations through such devices as blockades and genocides.

Princeton professor Freeman Dyson did a great job of summarizing the First World War when he stated: "It was a war of peculiar ugliness, fought with exceptional stupidity and brutality."

Answer 3

Did you ever dig an 8 ft. deep hole in your back yard, fill it with a foot of cold water and then live and sleep in it for months at a time, while people were shooting bullets and bombs at you ? Then when you get a chance to get out of the trench by attacking the enemy, you had to walk into barbed-wire and multiple machine-guns. Trench warfare was hell. The thing about WW1 is that the generals still used 1800's Napoleonic linear attack tactics, but the weapons of the day made those tactics obsolete, which resulted in millions of infantry casualties.

Good to see your back Johnny.

Answer 4

It sure isnt the Pearly Gates of Heaven!!!!!