War at Home

  1. The shelling of the British towns by the Germans was an outstanding shock to all of the British as something like this had NEVER happened before! Planes had hardly even come into use for war, and now they were being used to bomb other countries! And WORST of all, the bombings were aimed at civilian towns, killing many innocent people, who thought that they were one hundred and ten percent sure of being safe, being this far away from the main battles!

On the first shelling FIVE HUNDRED people alone were killed or injured, and seventy percent of these were women, and only EIGHT percent were soldiers! How could a country come and bomb another! It was as if it was against a taboo! It was unheard of, and NOONE was ready! Who could have ever thought that even though they were hundreds of miles from the enemy, they were still unsafe! In the towns and cities, people were supposed to be safe while the main battle was waged elsewhere, but they were wrong after 1914… very wrong. They had no defence, no enemy aircraft artillery, NOTHING! You can only imagine how terrified and frightened people must have been! Hardly knowing if their area would be next, would the entire German army come over to attack? Except for newspapers, which were still very unsure, they could only guess…

And even for the army and politicians and all the people at the head of the country, must have been in shock, was it a mistake? No, would they do it again? What can they do about it? So all round it was a complete surprise and shock, to everything in Britain…

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The government tried to play down the news of the war for a few reasons. One of these being the fact that if everyone saw the danger of the war, and how it even affected the people at home, they might think that going to war was a very bad idea, and they might change their minds seeing the death and trouble of it. The young and old men that would have recruited straight away being filled with the lies of propaganda, thinking that war was safe and easy and also seeing as they would have never seen much ...

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