History GCSE WW1 Sources Question

... oon who had experienced war trench conditions and he creatively and cleverly uses his language to portray the trenches and the feelings of the other men.

Sasoon describes some fingers of a dead man sticking out of the air as 'an appeal to God in defiance of those who made the war“. This very much emphasises one particular incident and he twists it-so it has a meaning In source I we are told about all the gruesome details such as the 'mangled bodies of the dead“ everywhere in the trenches but Source J gives a nice clean and un-battle like impression of the trenches. Source I is a bias opinion but he has eyewitness evidence Source J is an advertisement without any evidence, the two sources are very different in this aspect.

Question 7 Study Sources E, F and G. These 3 sources come from the time of the war. How reliable are they as evidence of what it was like in the trenches? Use sources and your knowledge of the First World War to explain your answer. Sources E,F and G do come from the time of the war but they are not good evidence of what life was actually like in the trenches. From source E we can not conclude anything about what the trenches were like, the postcards were made by the government for this reason, to stop the public finding out how bad the conditions were . It simply has the bare minimum of information to simply let the families know whether the soldier is dead or alive. Sources F and G both appeared in British Newspapers in July 1916 when at this timer the government were still trying to recruit men because conscription had not yet been introduced. They wanted to portray to the public back home that the soldiers fighting for Britain were enthusiastic and brave and this is what these two sources achieve. It is unlikely that the surrey regiment would have had time to play football while entering a battle head on. It is purely propaganda. Source G is not based on facts just an idea so it cannot be used as good evidence of what the trench fighting was like. This source doesn“t actually talk about the bad conditions of the trenches mainly about how the soldiers were very brave. 'Where t ...