Advancements In Paths Of Glory

By using a machine gun, many men could be killed in one time. So the machine gun was ‘stronger’ than the individual soldier. Since the Allies outgunned the Axis in artillery and machinery, the German soldiers took refuge in trenches that were no match for the kind of warfare waged. This made soldiers feel impotent. New recruits quickly learn about reality in warfare. In World War I, it was rare when an individual was a hero.

World War I was known for its very slow-paced battle and the stage of stalemate. After advancing from Germany on France, battle turned into trench warfare. Trench Warfare is a defensive strategy in a field where the army stays in rows of trenches that were placed along the Western Front during the war. The use of trenches during the Great War was a very significant tactic during battle, by making soldiers hidden but exposed just enough to be able to attack the enemy. On a daily basis, life in the trenches was very scary and filled with horror. Death was upon the soldiers even if there was nobody attacking them. There was a continuous shell fire that would randomly take the lives of many. Some men died on their first day in the trenches, and very few were lucky to make it out unharmed. Shell fire was not the only issue in the trenches. There were plenty of diseases and infections spreading around like a wildfire. Many soldiers got infections and diseases that could not be treated such as Trench Foot or Trench Fever. Although trench warfare acts as a great defensive and offensive measure, it became very dangerous because of the many different causes of death including shell fire, diseases, and infections.

Adding to this point, when it came to weapons, the trenches were not a good protection. Gases could easily run into the trenches harming most soldiers. There was hardly anything to do about it because if they got out of their trenches they would obviously be shot down. Secondly, the soldiers themselves weren't all that happy most of the time.

The danger inside all of the soldiers is old memories, locked up emotions, and realizing how close they are to death. One example of this danger is Detering. Detering saw a cherry blossom and it reminded him of home so

This war brought the introduction of machine guns (pp.784-785), tanks, chemical weapons, and the use of trench warfare (787-788) to survive from the unimaginable horrors of war. The devastating

Just like their constant companions the lice and the rats, the soldiers in the trench adapt to the hell that they find themselves trapped in – doing whatever it takes to survive. They even fight each other over food ‘at each others throats like hungry, snarling animals’. As the novel & the war progresses so does the inhumane side of the soldiers who become increasing more detached from killing, unconcerned with the death of friends. The soldiers are conditioned, hardened up and desensitised with self preservation becoming a key motivator. This is shown as the soldiers plunder the city of Arras allies ' town and vandalize houses with no consideration of the local

While the soldiers were on the front-line, they experienced individually and collectively the brutalities of war, which either damaged them physically, mentally or both. If something of that sort was to occur, the best thing that the soldiers could do was to try their best to cope with what they had to deal with, and they did such in many different ways. Soldiers were affected by the devastation and fear of artillery, as they were either killed or hurt as they were bombarded. If a solider encountered a shell explosion, it resulted in lost limbs, shell shock, and even death. Soldiers were also positively affected by the war as it developed them as experienced war veterans.

I see it as what you see in your life and what you do does affect you no matter what it is and that is exactly the same with this book. These men are subject to constant physical danger, as they could literally be blown to pieces at any moment. This intense physical threat also serves as an unceasing attack on the nerves, forcing soldiers to cope with primal, instinctive fear during every waking moment. Additionally, the soldiers are taken back home, to life they can never live normally or be the same person they once were. The war had mentally abused them to having fear every single moment of their life.

After seeing the terrible gory sights in the truth of the war, the soldiers weren’t able to take any more, therefore causing a hinderance to the way they chose to live. The war essentially broke the will to live for the soldiers, which tore the soldiers apart since they no longer had a motivation to stay alive for the

After it rained all of that water ahead to go somewhere so all of the rain was in the trenches which made it muddy and difficult to walk. The food was also very awful and content of canned food. That is if you could even get some because the rations were so low and the rats would eat some of it. There was also a lot of desire to hurt yourself, because it was like living in a nightmare with artillery shooting you all day. So the soldiers thought this would be the easiest way out, but that wasn't the case. The soldiers would shoot themselves in the foot or hand, hoping to get sent home but often times the officer would just shoot them even though they were on the same

The soldiers lost their youth and their identities through the brutality of

These attacks could take in a second the close comrades and maybe even friends away and would often be the only sign of the enemy that they would see. Adding to that it was not only gun fire that killed the soldiers but a big part of them was also killed or injured by mines or “booby traps”, like it is shown in the scene in Platoon where the group is searching for tracks of the enemy until one of them suddenly is killed by one of these explosives . This all together made it hard for the men to differentiate between who was the enemy and who was just a civilian and resulted in these missions becoming tough and psychologically damaging operations in which at every time at the glimpse of a second you could be killed. Another aspect is that there was no actual frontline like they had known it from earlier wars and so it became difficult for the soldiers to measure their success as the only thing they had was the “body count”, as they were advised to kill as many enemies as possible, which then made soldiers often question the actual significance of their

As people grow up, there are parts of them that never change; in some people it’s their sense of humor or maybe a haircut, but in everyone grows up in some way; possibly becoming more mature, changing hobbies or interests, or maybe that person actually decides to change their haircut. World War Two, The Cold War, and Afghanistan are examples of different stages in the life of war that can be seen through the perspectives of different soldiers of these times. There are elements of war that soldiers have faced in every war; the deaths of close ones, the hostility between peoples, and the experience of killing another human being, but experiences of war have also changed throughout the ages; there is less and less man to man combat, more planning and preparations taken for war, and

When a soldier enlists into the military forces they know they are going in to fight for their country and freedom for everyone. They spend months training and preparing for the war and what to come. They learn to fight, shoot, and kill enemies, but what they do not learn is how to cope with the after math of the war. Soldiers in war every year come home with many post traumatic effects from what they had witnessed. During world war two this was known as shell shock; however what can be concluded is that world war two impacted the soldiers emotionally and physiologically from the time they entered to post war.

During World War I, trench warfare was very common. It was a newer technique in battles as in wars prior to the Great World War, fighting was less invasive and men merely marched at each other from opposite ends of fields and fought until only one side remained standing or a white flag was hung high in surrender. In fact in older wars, the fighting was far less dangerous to the point where battles were often times viewed by locals who watched from side lines with really no threat of getting hurt. In World War I however, the fighting had upscaled to the most sadistic type the world had ever experienced. With the industrialist wave that had overcome us in the late 1800s into