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"!

Chapter Eight : "London"

Chapter Seven : "Bethune"

Chapter Six : "Bombardment"

Chapter Five : "On rest again"

Chapter Four : "Back to the Round"

Chapter Three : "Out on rest"

Comment on the relationship between the soldiers and the officers.

How would you describe the narrator's character?

Chapter Two : "In the trenches"

What do we learn about the soldier in this chapter?

How are the soldiers dehumanised in this chapter? Give specific examples.

What mention is made of the natural world and the human world?

Look at this website for some background information on conditions in the trenches:http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWtrench.htm

Chapter One : "Recruits"

What does chapter one tell us about the soldiers?