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The First World War - The Stalemate on the Western Front - Source based questions  

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The First World War The Stalemate on the Western Front Question 1: Source A at first glance doesn't appear to tell us very much about why the war went on for as long as it did. It appears to be poem about two soldiers who met the general and shows at the end how he was responsible for their deaths in his plan of attack. The only reason it seems to show is that the generals should have been defending when they should have been defending because as it says, many men were going to die in the attack which when we look back at it, we see they only gained minimal amounts of land for thousands of lives. This, although it is a good reason for the protracted length of the war, it is not the only one stated in the poem. Looking closely at it you can see that the...

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