The Battle of the Somme 1916 - source related study.
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The Battle of the Somme 1916 1. What can you learn from Source A about what life was like in the trenches during the Great War? Taken from a book about trench warfare, the extract in Source A shows us some aspects of life in the trenches, though it does not show us the full picture as it is probably not what every soldier in the trenches experienced, but it does show us the typical conditions. Written by an English author we can assume that this source shows what it was like for British soldiers and possibly those of the Empire but it may not represent the German soldiers and those in enemy trenches. However, the routine described would be typical for both sides. The provenance states that the book was published in 1976 and so we can assume that it was done to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the...


