... could fight for their country. Often, their involvement in the war was strongly encouraged by authority figures. One example of this is in the movie All Quiet on the Western Front where the teacher gives a patriotic speech about fighting for the fatherland. According to David Dowling, many Europeans went off to war to escape the harsh realities of the industrial revolution "to discover comradeship and the satisfaction of physical labor and risk- (8). Unfortunately ... , the young soldiers soon found out that war was not glamorous at ... ...

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... and there are many references to nature such as "field" and "rivers". The soldier in many ways sums up the mood of the first months of the war. Rupert Brooke is happy to die for his country, but knows nothing of what comes before death on the Western Front: exposure, mud, the constant dangers of snipers, the regular loss of friends and comrades. There are certain passages in Birdsong that ... reflect this poem in different ways. There is a section that runs from page 220-224 which shows us the letters that the soldiers are sending. The men all know that they are going to attack in ... ...

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