Analysis on WWI source - the play "Journey's End" by R.C. Sherriff.

These excerpt are taken from the source I have chosen to evaluate, a 1929 play called "Journey's End". It was composed by a British author R.C. Sherriff who joined the war at age eighteen. He served as a captain in the East Surrey regiment from 1914 until the end of the war. This makes the play a first hand account, so it would be useful to historians studying the soldier's experience of trench warfare. Again, because …

…the limitations in weaponry. The source conveys the futility of war when men are essentially sent to their death, and shows how easily the Germans were able to predict British strategy. Journey's End is not reliable enough to be studied as a source on its own because it is a play and not non-fiction. However, in conjunction with other materials it is an interesting anti-war perspective from someone who actually fought on the front line.