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As the name suggests - a slideshow with plenty of hypertext links to utube clips which I use as an A level intro to the poetry of Wilfred Owen
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The war to end all wars
1914-1918
“Bodies and bits of bodies, and clots of blood, and green metallic-looking slime made by the explosive gases were floating on the surface of the water.Our men lived there and died there within a few yards of the enemy. They crouched below the sandbags and burrowed into the sides of the trenches. Lice crawled over them in swarms. If they dug to get deeper cover, , their shovels went into the softness of dead bodies who had been their friends. Scraps of flesh, booted legs, blackened hands, eyeless heads came falling over them when the enemy fired shells at their position.”
1914
The Central Powers vs. The Allied Forces
Austria HungaryThe Patchwork Empire
GermanyThe Insecure Superpower
The Central Powers Team Minor PlayersTurkey & Bulgaria
RussiaThe Slumbering Giant
FranceWounded Glory
Britain & The British EmpireThe Colonial Flagbearer
The Allied Forces TeamMinor Players
H.G. Wells
The Black Hand Gang (Serbia)
Franz FerdinandArch-duke of Austro-Hungarian empire
How can you kill 4 crayons with one bullet?
How can you kill 10 million people with two bullets?
28th June 1914 – Sarajevo, Bosnia
Gavrilo Princip
Austrian Historical Museum - Vienna
Kaiser Wilhelm – Monarch of Germany
4th August 1914Germany invades Belgium
Public Schools & The Game‘it will all be over by Christmas’
Henry Newbolt
Rudyard Kipling
And Did Those Feet In Ancient Times‘Idyllic Albion’
‘God is on our side’ – a Holy War
Bertrand Russell
Propaganda
Robert Bridges
Henry Asquith PM
Herbert Read
Laurence Binyon
Rupert Brooke
The Sweet Pea Treatment
Women & the War Effort
1915
Trench Warfare
‘Lice, rats, barbed wire, fleas, shells, bombs, underground caves, corpses, blood, liquor, mice, rats, filth, steel; that is what war is. It is the work of the devil.’
‘There were about 20 men. They walked like living plaster statues. Their faces stared at us like those of shrunken mummies, and their eyes seemed so huge that one saw nothing but eyes. Those eyes, which had not seen sleep for four days and nights showed the vision of death. Was this the dream of glory that I had when I had volunteered to fight?’
New Technology
Zeppelins bomb EnglandThe First Blitz
Submarines & Supply Routes
The Sinking of the Lusitania
Not a good time to be a goldfish!
Edith Cavell
Field Hospitals & Surgery
‘Never Light 3 cigarettes with a single match’
Charles Sorely
1916
Conscription
Katherine Tynan
Jessie Pope
Winston Churchill
Lloyd George Becomes PM
DORADefence Of the Realm Act
The Winter of Discontent
Siegfried Sassoon
1917
America Joins the War
Mud & No End In Sight
Winifred Mary Letts
Self-wounding & Suicide
1918
The Final German Push
