Historians say that sports had become an escential part of army life. Informal football matches were used to bring worries soldiers together. Those sort of matches entertained the troops meanwhile they were recovering from the fight and preparing for it. It was also a great distraction from the horror what was going on around them.
Of course, the military autorities were very keen on providing oportunities to play football as well as to watch others play. In the 1940's, football had a great fame among the troops and the working class, the soldiers could watch few professional football players playing it. The common enjoyment of taking part or watching sport together gave people a form of equality, and because of that, sport in war was little different from sport in peace.
In fact, it is a mural 20 feet long and probably 10 feet high, and it shows ten soldiers, almost life size, being led by a medic through hundreds of injured bodies lying on the GROUND. All of the mEn have bandAGEs across their eyes, INDICATing that they have been INJURed after a gas attack during the First World War.
ReplyDeleteHistorians say that sports had become an esSential part of army life. Informal football matches were used to bring worrieD soldiers together. Those sortS of matches entertained the troops []while they were recovering from the fightING and preparing for it. It was also a great distraction from the horror That was going on around them.
Of course, the military autHorities were very keen on providing opPortunities to play football as well as to watch others play. In the 1940's, football had a great fame among the troops and the working class, the soldiers could watch few? professional football players playing it.
Interesting, but I don't see the football match. "Floor" is used only inside buildings, and we don't usually use "damaged" in referring to people or animals. The last sentence was very good.
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ReplyDeleteExcellent writing Juan Pablo. Did you know that during Christmas outside the trenches the German and English soldiers played football together and this is possible why you can see the football match being played in the background of the painting. Here is a link you might be interested in reading.
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Yes, kathryn. I knew it. There was something about that on the audio that I listened. But, I reckon I did not get very well that chunk of audio, :(
DeleteAmazing writing (Is the Imperial Museum in London??), and amazing link Kathryn.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever seen John Houston's Escape to Victory?
Gracias por corregirme y por las felicitaciones. La verdad que cuando mezclo historia e inglés es una combinación muy motivante para aprender el idioma, hehe!
ReplyDeleteHabria que preguntarle a Kathryn, porque no sé si queda en Londres exactamente, hay como 5 ramas de este museo, y creo que tres están en Londres.
La película que mencionas, la ví cuando era chico, pero me acuerdo que estaba buenísima, me parece que la voy a ver denuevo para acordarme mejor, Altamente recomendable!!
I used to live in London when I was a child, actually quite near to the Imperial War Musuem and like most children never had an interest in museums and I think you are right Juan there are branches of the museum in other areas. I am always promising myself a trip to London to visit all the art galleries and museums which I never took advantage of when I lived there. I have probably seen the film you mentioned Ivan, but I never remember the titles of films, only the most recent ones. In fact, my son is very interested in the history of both the first and second world war and sometimes when he visits us we watch the history channel on TV which has amazing and also very sad true stories about the war.
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