Thesis: The terrors of the battlefields and front line fighting in World War I drove soldiers into both insanity and brute savagery as they struggled to fight for their lives.
x- Constant shelling forced insanity among recruits who were inexperienced
x- Terror and frustration comes out in the form of striking at other creatures, such as rats
x- Ineffective tactics cause massive slaughters of entire lines of troops as they suffer beneath machine guns
x- Fear of death drives the soldiers into a fight for survival
x- Brutality causes soldiers to slaughter even those who try to surrender
x- They become men once the fighting subsides
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