The effects of the First World War on British people between 1914 and 1918

... The effects of the First World War on British people between 1914 and 1918 The First World War affected British people wherever they were. There was no real fighting in Britain, but the war was brought home to them through food rationing, death of their loved ones etc. Soldiers who survived will always remember horrors of trench warfare, but First World War also gave a boost ot technology so that planes and tanks were developed much faster than they would have been in the peace time. Trench warfare is probably an experience which every soldier is going to remember the most of all experience he had in the Great War. Soldiers lived in these "dugouts" waiting for the right opportunity to get "over the top" and "no man's land" to break the enemy lines. Trench warfare was very difficult for the soldiers; the conditions they had to put up with in

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