The following Christmas, machine gun barrages were deliberately timed to drown out any sound of carol singing to prevent spontaneous truces happening again.
The following Christmas, machine gun barrages were deliberately timed to drown out any sound of carol singing to prevent spontaneous truces happening again.
The German army was conscripted and the British soldiers of the day were men sold on the idea of traveling the world and becoming a hero or a ‘true man’ by cutting down their nations enemies in noble warfare.
It basically was just a job at the start of the war for many. They shot at the enemy because they were soldiers and that’s what soldiers do.
But when their officer told them “You’ll be shot for dereliction of duty” they went back to fighting.
WW1 was a senseless and sad war, driven by the desires of aristocrats.