... this was to be broken. By the start of 1915 new and innovative ideas were being made by Allies and the Germans to break the lines of the Western Front, in the hope that one of the sides could gain an "edge" upon the other. One of the first revolutionary weapons of the ... to induce a violent fit of sneezing. Three months later, on 31 January 1915, the Germans deployed tear gas for the first time on the Eastern Front. Fired in liquid form contained in 15 cm howitzer shells against the Russians at Bolimov, the new experiment proved unsuccessful, with the tear gas liquid failing ... (alt...

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... 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 ... most attacks were recognised long before they took place, while trench "raids" tended to reveal more than any writing by a "patriotic" soldier from the front. Surprise attacks were thus rare, especially early in the war, infantry tactics being far from competent. However, when sur...

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... patriotic side of the war, his poem "The Soldier" represents this fact very well. Them poem itself soldier is written in the form of a sonnet, 14 lines of iambic pentameter, divided into an octave and sestet. The poem is written as if it was the last words of a soldier, writing a message to his ... 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 ...

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