1. The French Revolution
... the war was skilfully portrayed as a game to be played, as in source F, where the East Surreys, somewhat naively, kick four footballs into no-mans land to launch the assault on enemy positions. The war suddenly seeming ironically similar to the soldier in Disabled, (who) liked "a smear of blood down his leg ... 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....
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