World war 1

[maximilian12]

Can you help me i have a really big question to answer over the weekend and i cant answer it. M� teacher told me : Research information on the soldiers as they returned home from world war 1. Write a report detailing the opportunities available of these soldiers, the effects of the war on the soldiers personally, and any obstcles that they faced after returning home.

Please help me to answer this Question          Thank you

[Bob...]

You should find what you need here, with a bit of research - http://tinyurl.com/2bbn3

[camille79]

This isn't really something to base your answer on, but interesting all the same.  After WW1, soldiers returning to Scotland were gifted small pieces of land by landowners.  Most opted to grow raspberries on these as it was a profitable crop which didn't require a huge acreage to produce an income.  To this day, raspberries are widely grown in scotland and could even be considered a national fruit in the way the english regard the strawberry.

[Bob...]

No but it's a current answer

[woofgang]

Google, my friend, google

[ursula62]

Does nobody do homework these days in the old fashioned way, i.e. by going to the library and looking things up in books?

Nowadays it seems you just post a question on an internet site and homework becomes a communal effort.

Does it actually help you gain any more knowledge or understanding of what you're studying if someone hands you a link to an answer?

Let's face it, you aren't even learning how to use a search engine efficiently yourself by asking questions on boards like this.

As one of the previous replies suggests... at least go google !

Rant over. Good luck with the essay.

 

[Enver Pa�a]

hmm... that s a deep subject in deed. but just to make you see how a soldier may feel after coming home from the front (and i don't think that feeling will change due to which war it was or which year he fought in.. it will be all the same), you shall just see the scene in the movie "the others" that the husband of Nicole Kidman returned home. i hope it works.

[Sproutstick]

Read the peotry of Siegfried Sasoon and Wifred Owen (your teacher should have already introduced you to this). 

[Bangkok]

If you can get to library, look at John Keegan's Illustrated First World War (published about 12 months ago).  If has some haunting pictures of the trenches and the homecomings.  Describe what you see, then ask yourself if the promises you had been given (job, better living standards, security) were all false, how would you feel? 

[paulz]

max - my wife's Grandfather [who only died a couple of years ago at 101] had very mixed feelings.  Like many he lied about his age to get out there.  In the trenches most of them were scared stiff.  The cold, the mud, the gas, trench foot to name but a few.  Nothing had - or could have prepared them for the sights, sounds and smells they met.  He was genuinely shocked [we're talking about nearly ninety years later] to see his close friends and comrades die next to him, in his arms or just be blown to smithereens.  He also felt guilty that he return home alive, but wounded and many weren't that fortunate. Don't know if your in the UK or not, but a trip to the imperial war musuem [http://www.iwm.org.uk/]
 may help.  It was also supposed to be the war to end all wars. Hope that helps

 

 

[Westminster]

Among other things, consider unemployment (there was a really vicious slump in 1919-20 as wartime economic demand ended) and influenza (there was a worldwide pandemic in 1919).