Quotes from the novel

What are your favourite quotes and why?

Background to World War One

Read the following account of how World War One beganhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/origins_01.shtml

WW1 - Hell in the Trenches

World War I was the first modern global military conflict which took place in Europe between 1914 to 1918. Archaic military tactics met modern industrialised warfare for the first time, resulting casualties on a previously unimaginable scale. Men rotted in the mud, then were sent to face massed machine gun fire, modern artillary, tanks and chemical weapons. Over 40 million soldiers and civilians died and countless others were physically maimed or mentally scarred by the horrors of trench warfare.

Chapter Twelve : "Vengeance"

Find about the real "Llandovery castle" http://www.gwpda.org/naval/lcastl10.htm

Chapter Eleven : "Arras"

Arras 1919.

Chapter Ten : "An interlude"

Chapter Nine : "Over the top"

A young german soldier waiting to "go over the top"!