Week Five 

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A Briton, interviewing German prisoners after the Somme battles: " 'How will it end?' I asked [a German doctor] 'I see no end to it,' he answered.  'It is the suicide of nations...' I met other prisoners then and a year afterward who could see no end of the massacre." Philip Gibbs, from his Now It Can be Told, quoted in Paul Fussell's The Great War in Modern Memory (London, 1975)

Assigned Readings

G. J. Meyer, A WORLD UNDONE, Part Four: 1916 - Bleeding To Death, pp. 359-470
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Henri Barbusse, Under Fire : The Story of a Squad (selections)
Robert Lindsay Mackay, War Diary (selections)
 

Images
Photographs from the trenches
Fifty photographs from all fronts the public did NOT see (click on image for next)
 

Other readings:

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