How Useful are Sources A, B and M to an Historian Studying the Attitudes of British Soldiers to their Commanders During the First World War?
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How Useful are Sources A, B and M to an Historian Studying the Attitudes of British Soldiers to their Commanders During the First World War? Sources A, B and M are useful in telling you about the attitudes of British soldiers and their commanders; but source M varies the view that is in the others as it is an officers opinion when writing about a dead soldier. None of the sources I am evaluating have the date they were written on them, so there is a slight doubt about their usefulness to an historian. But I know that Siegfried Sassoon was a soldier in the British army and that he is also one of the most influential war poets. It is well known that all of his poetry was written either during the period that he was fighting in or in the mental hospital he was taken to after he had served. This enhances...


