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"I knew a simple soldier boy"Siegfried Sassoon (1918) - Considerthe presentation of the ordinary soldier in the writing of the Great War.
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"I knew a simple soldier boy" Siegfried Sassoon (1918) Consider the presentation of the ordinary soldier in the writing of the Great War. World War 1, the 'Great War' from 1914-1918, began as a conflict between Austria - Hungary and Serbia on July 28th 1914, but was soon to become a global war involving thirty-two nations. The immediate cause of the war between Austria - Hungary and Serbia was the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand at Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia. Soon the world was at arms and fighting each other in one of the most brutal and horrifying wars ever known. Battles at the Somme, Ypres and Vimy Ridge were particularly terrible because of the large loss of life they were responsible for. Allied leaders, such as Field Marshall Douglas Haig seemed to be sending thousands of innocent men to their deaths. Hostilities...
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