Churchill’s American Arsenal: The Partnership Behind the Innovations that Won World War Two

Abstract

young men such as Paul found themselves in once they were marooned to the frontline. The film brilliantly depicts how these young men slowly become numb to the bloodshed and the only feelings they are left with are fear, hunger and the urge to survive to escape a daunting present and return to a past they can barely remember. The visual effects and technical achievements of the film are as captivating as 1917 – another First World War film that follows the experience of two young British corporals, Blake and Schofield, in and around ‘no man’s land’, the territory in northern France separating German and British troops. Like All Quiet on the Western Front, 1917 provides a visceral and raw depiction of the horrors of war and both films illustrate how equally brutal and relentlessly dehumanising the war has been for young men fighting and dying on the battlefield in the First World War, regardless of nationality or the side for which they fought.