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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"trench warfare"”.
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"Where Youth and Laughter Go:" Trench Warfare from petersburg to the Western Front
… part of the 19th century the experience of warfare changed due to advances in weapons technology. The defensive tactic of trench warfare gained new importance. The most prolific use of trench warfare occured on the Western Front in the First World War, but it was during the siege of …
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Propaganda and Poetry during the Great War.
… hid the horrible truth of modern mechanical warfare. The majority and most recognized and admired poets, including those who served on the front and knew firsthand the horrors of trench warfare, not only supported the war effort, but also encouraged its continuation. For the majority of the …
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The Poet's Corpus: Memory and Monumentality in Wilfred Owen's "The Show"
… is widely recognized to be the greatest English “trench poet” of the First World War. His posthumously published war poems sculpt a nightmarish vision of trench warfare, one which enables Western audiences to consider the suffering of the English soldiers and the brutality of modern warfare nearly …
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The Interplay between Technology, Tactics and Organisation in the First AIF
… tactics and organisation of the First AIF. Warfare in the twentieth warfare is characterised by the presence of certain technologies that give it a distinctive nature and which first appeared in the Great War. It was in the Great War that the highly dispersed form of tactics that we know …
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They will not be the same: themes of modernity in Britain during World War I
… of British soldiers on the Western Front. Trench warfare will be analyzed both as a birthplace for alienation and irony, and for its role in producing the Live and Let Live system. When this system was practiced on the Western Front, participating parties rejected nationalism in favor of …
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Diversifying the Canon of American First World War Poetry
… of those men would never see the front line or trench warfare. AEF involvement in the war was recorded in their poetry, which in many cases is not housed in archives belonging to the poets but is instead scattered in newspaper archives around the country. However difficult the research, this …
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The Memory of the First World War at its Centenary in Britain: A Study of War Memory at National, Local and Individual Levels
… the pity of war narrative, as told by poets, of trench warfare that amassed in thousands dead, is the dominant commonly held view. The centenary can be perceived as a unique modern platform that could change these dominant narratives, and this research project will ask, did it? By looking at …
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Imagining Peace and War: Plymouth 1918-1939
After the trench warfare of the Great War the development of aerial warfare and widespread urbanisation meant that military doctrine in any future conflict would likely bring unprecedented death and destruction to non-combatants. Therefore, war prevention became the most important foreign policy …