This assorted assignment consists of primary sources – letter from soldiers on the front home and articles discussing soldiers’ everyday lives on the front.
Read and choose one story (from the three stories in the BBC magazine – attachment). Take a look a the letters from the given link: https://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/ and chose one of them.
Do a write-up, incorporating information from two chosen stories (of the three articles on soldiers’ intimacy, food, and realities back home: BBC Magazine (see attached file), and one of the Individual Letters from the link.
Your essay is to be three to four paragraphs long, containing some 200 words. Please cite in-text and also in separate ‘works cited’ section at the end following, utilizing examples given (see Course Information module with details on Originality, Citation, and Format, and MLA).
Sources:
https://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/ by Richard Landers in South on the Border 2008
BBC History Magazine, August 2011
Clare Makepeace. Sex and the Trenches, 32-33
Saul David. Did Conkers Help Win the First World War? 72-23
Rachel Duffet. Grub UP! British Army Food on the Western Front, 78-81