'Diary of the Damned - Soldiers of WWI'

' bother at Drink body of w taker was in humans War I, volunteering to a private army, called Pals battalion. set upon was a youthfulness man, 25 geezerhood old and a former grammar-school boy. During his period in the encroaches, he writes a unusual diary, about his cruel introduction to the trenches at the Somme in northerly France, even though it was strictly against the rules to keep.\nThe soldiers lived in a city called Suzanne, w here they had to march to, which was precise hard. They were encamped in tents by 12 mickle in each, amongst the enemy and their deliver guns, and in the night, they pot hear shells shriek. The conditions in the trenches were horrible, which he in addition writes in his diary: No wrangle can adequately describe the conditions. Its not the Germans were fighting, but the weather. The trenches were fill up with mud and water, so the soldier was stand up in snappy muddy water to their knees for hours, and the mud was and developting deeper. To involve forward they had to mathematical function their elbows for leverage. The firing lines is depict as; speak up a agency underneath the base, whose walls atomic number 18 slimy with moisture. The fundament is a radix or to a greater extent deep in rancid-smelling mud. Even their foods were refrigerated and became muddy when they ate it, because of their bodies fully cover in mud. The merely food they had, was common cold bacon, some profit and jam, and many of the rations fails to tote up because the communication trenches were water-logged and being continually shelled.\nThey everlastingly looked at destroy and depressing surroundings. Its a difference field, and you can bump the feeling of how doleful the surroundings were, when he writes: zip here but trench after trench and, in places, the ground blown into gobs of dirt. The trees gestate been hacked to pieces - save black stumps remain. Nothing grows. Utter desolation.\n residue days ar f ew, and when they finally get to have some, they have to march to their billets, where they get a occur to wash... '