Frenzies of bullets littering the sky, constant danger from gas attacks, ice cold weather, disease infested trenches, having to bury friends in mass graves and watching as one by one fellow soldiers die around you and all the time knowing that the chances are you would be next.
These are just a few of the physical and emotional battles soldiers had to fight in day to day life in the ‘Great War’ a war in which close to none million soldiers lost their lives, eight hundred thousand of those British.
We could not begin to imagine the true horrors of the war if not for poets such as Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon who painted vivid pictures of the war through their words. Poems such as Dulce et decorum est, Exposure or The Gener
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