Sources A and B are an earlier type of source, depending on the patriotic fervour that swept Britain at the war’s outset, portraying enlistment as a duty to the country and empire. The posters themselves being of an accusatory nature, demanding from the reader "What did you do in the war?" and that they should "Go!", the fighting taking a crusade-like facade in which the only way to please parents, friends and girls was to join up and head towards the fighting. That this was accepted by many, was partly because the war was seen as an adventure, and perhaps because the last war where there was mass recruitment was almost one hundred years previous, the majority of those fighting in the interlude being well-trained career soldiers.

Source C, however, is a much later source, as can be determined from the approach it uses to "persuade" people to enlist, preventing the "mad brute (of) militarism", in this case, a raving gorilla, that represents Germany, from reaching out from Europe (bottom-centre, right) which has been dec

The two pieces are obviously the worst memories of the war, published at a time when the reception for such material was positive i.e. the Locarno honeymoon, while the events in the pieces themselves are biased towards the events that are most poignant in their minds, perhaps exaggerated, but probably not, as the veterans from both World War One and World War Two, tend to be similar, of real fear, pain and anguish. However the events depicted are not the general, but the individual, as they are designed to shock, to change peoples opinions from the initial thought that war is good, or to that effect anyhow. There is evidence that the appalling conditions that Sassoon examines are indeed as bad as "a pair of hands… pointing at the sky with a defiant gesture" as our trip to the battlefields, the graveyards Etc. agrees, pictures of the war, be they in black and white, are many, and give useful help towards establishing an overall picture.

The nature of the conflict also changed over the passing of time, changing from what was primarily a selfish war, fought by Britain against the growing ascendancy of the Central powers as a whole, and Germany especially, whom, by the eve of the war, were challenging Britain on virtually every front except finance, to the prevention of global domination by a single power. This is shown between the posters, the former merely being straightforward recruitment posters, while the latter may be seen to provide external reason for hostilities, due to the massive damage committed by the somewhat deranged gorilla.

Enter sources F and G. Both sources are patriotic and refer top the antics of East Surrey Captain Neville, who, at 7.30 on 1st July 1916, kicked four footballs ‘over the top’. Source F showing the bobbling footballs as the men move forward, shells landing all around the Surries, together with the dead, shown, perhaps as this could not be concealed from the public for long. The heroism of the East Surries is conveyed by their poses, arms positioned across the face, all wounds having been taken by presenting ones’ front to the opposition, backed up by source, G proclaiming that every man from the East Surrey regiment were "gallant", who therefore could not be hit in the back, thus deserving of their "corner of a foreign field" (Brookes’ The Soldier). To suggest that that either report is even wildly optimistic, would be a massive understatement, source G reporting that "the Surries’ dribbled the four footballs for a mile and a quarter into the enemy trenches", the net gain by the end of November (attack started July 1) was 5 miles deep at the greatest point, and 18 miles wide. Advance on July 1st however was just "a mile deep and three and a half miles wide" (official Dispatch to Haig).

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imated, to the shores of "America" (bottom, centre). The poster compels the reader to joint up for the US army, probably after the USA declared war on Germany, on the 7th April 1917, proving this to be a later source, produced after the war has raged unabated for three years, thus having dispelled the notion of adventure or even perhaps duty.

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