The Juxtaposition of the Normal and the Abominable How do the Authors

The Juxtaposition of the Normal and the Abominable How do the Authors

illustrate this description of World War One? Pay Particular attention

to the Details they Highlight and the Methods and Language they Used

to do so?

'The Juxtaposition of the Normal and the Abominable'

How do the Authors illustrate this description of World War One? Pay

Particular attention to the Details they Highlight and the Methods and

Language they Used to do so?

'In the trenches behind the lines, men and women struggled to hold on

or recreate fragments of an ordinary life - a letter from home, a pot

of jam, a kiss - to remind them of their own humanity'…

Today I saw pictures of Britain's brave soldiers leave for war in

Iraq. As a nation we are able to watch a war unfold before us in a way

never experienced before. The constant pictures of the death,

destruction and disgraceful nature of war help people to see the

atrocities of war. In many wars of the past the horrors of war have

not been available to the public due to censorship and less

communication; I draw a contrast to the British people in World War

One who also watched their soldiers leave in glory to fight a war with

a dream of seeing the world and the glory of war, armed with little

more than the old lie 'Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori'. Whilst

with such vivid images of 'our boys' it is hard for us to forget about

the men who are fighting, in World War One so many soldiers left with

aspirations to see the world and got as far as France - their destiny

to die in a muddy field. The Iraqi people today are experiencing a new

and dangerous life as their nation is gripped with war. One thing

often forgotten about as we watch on BBC News24 is that people are

still living in Baghdad and life goes on for Iraqi people. Ben

Macintyre in 'A Foreign Field' depicts how the lives of the peoples of

France continued as their nation, like Iraq, was ravaged by war:

Ben Macintyre cleverly highlights the way that, whilst the war brought

such horror to the people of Villeret, life still continued and there

was some form of normality. Normally Macintyre uses a quote from a

diary or record to bring meaning to help his audience understand how

people felt. The book has a journalistic style and, as with

journalism, the author tends to stick to facts; for most of the book

Macintyre's style is descriptive but largely unromantic.