On the 28th July 1918 the great powers of Europe went to war in one of the most tragic and bloody events in all of history. The main wars on the western front were between Britain, the ruler of the worlds' largest empire covering over a quarter of the full land mass, and a new country called Germany. The reason that Britain was in the war was because it was upholding some treaties it had made …
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…death and destruction there was it caused the exact opposite effect and the amount of people joining the army got lower and lower. Soon the British armies started putting up posters advertising the last push. This last push was going to take place at a place called Somme. This again made people want to join the battle and claim their moment of glory. The amount of firepower that was going to be used was enormous.