Source 1 - The General- Siegfreid Sassoon The general is a primary source poem written by an English war hero named Siegfried Sassoon, an infantry officer on the western front in 1917. Sassoon condemns the generals for forcing soldiers going over the top and their poor plan of attack. Sassoon blames the death of his comrades, harry and jack on the General showing the indifference between them and the soldier’s & demonstrates their low morale towards the end of the war effort.The poem highlights the disgust that some soldiers hold with the wasteful conflict itself and with the men who were leading the war effort. The perspective of the ‘The general’ is that of upper-class English gentlemen who was well educated and attended Cambridge university having a rich Jewish banker for a father. Sassoon had extreme antiwar sentiment after being wounded and sent back to the front lines many times. After becoming a lead editor at the times he wrote an article about how the government is unnecessarily prolonging the war causing public outrage as this came from the perspective of a …show more content…
'Destroy this mad brute' The poster is criticizing German soldiers depicting them as barbaric and uncivilized shown through the spiked German helmet reading Militarism and the bloody club which says 'kultur' meaning uneducated and aggressive. The soldier is carrying a Belgian maiden who is displayed as feminine and vulnerable highlighting the German's rape of Belgium and further displaying the barbaric nature of German soldiers. The background is a destroyed France showing the power of the German army and fear that America could be next. This shows the patriotic and nationalistic nature of the wartime era and the anti-German feelings that were passing through