Conflict And Co-operation

Conflict And Co-operation

Introduction

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We have been set a task to find out the effects of conflict on

individuals using the First World War. We will be evaluating the

sources we were given, plus the source we have chosen. We will be

judging them and seeing how reliable and useful they are. Sources A

and B are both primary evidence, this means that they were written by

people who were actually in the war. They know what they're talking

about but you can't be sure if they're completely honest.

Sources C and D are secondary evidence, this means that they have been

adapted from somewhere and researched. Source E is they source of our

own choice, the information I have chosen for it is secondary

evidence.

Sources A and B

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Source A is an extract from an Autobiography by Siegfried Sassoon, it

was written in 1928, ten years after the war ended. It is a good

source because it tells us how he felt being in the trenches whilst in

the war; "lugging rolls of concertina wire along a narrow trench

swilling with mud and water wasn't much fun", "I could see the ruined

village below the hill and the leafless trees; there seemed no comfort

left in my life".

The war affected him so much that even lost his faith in Jesus.

The strengths in this source are that it has been written by someone

who was actually in the war at the time, so it is all first

hand/primary evidence. There is no reason for him to have lied about

anything because he wouldn't have written a book about how it was in

the war if he wanted to hide his feelings or not tell the whole truth.

The weaknesses in this source are that it was written ten years after

the war so the author may have forgotten things or may have blocked

things out of his mind because they were too painful to remember.

Source A is only a tiny extract from the whole of his book so we don't