Book contents
- Dublin’s Great Wars
- Dublin’s Great Wars
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Prelude: Dublin and Conflict, 1899–1914
- 2 Dublin Goes to War
- 3 Outbreak, 1914
- 4 Stalemate, 1915
- 5 Gallipoli: Helles
- 6 Gallipoli: Suvla Bay
- 7 Preparations
- 8 Rising
- 9 Falling
- 10 Consequences
- 11 The Other 1916
- 12 Success on the Somme
- 13 Snow and Sand
- 14 Attrition: 1916–17
- 15 Learning
- 16 Victory from the Jaws of Defeat
- 17 War of Independence
- 18 Crossovers
- 19 Civil War
- 20 Peace
- 21 Commemoration
- Conclusion: Three Men
- Book part
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
13 - Snow and Sand
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 August 2018
- Dublin’s Great Wars
- Dublin’s Great Wars
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Prelude: Dublin and Conflict, 1899–1914
- 2 Dublin Goes to War
- 3 Outbreak, 1914
- 4 Stalemate, 1915
- 5 Gallipoli: Helles
- 6 Gallipoli: Suvla Bay
- 7 Preparations
- 8 Rising
- 9 Falling
- 10 Consequences
- 11 The Other 1916
- 12 Success on the Somme
- 13 Snow and Sand
- 14 Attrition: 1916–17
- 15 Learning
- 16 Victory from the Jaws of Defeat
- 17 War of Independence
- 18 Crossovers
- 19 Civil War
- 20 Peace
- 21 Commemoration
- Conclusion: Three Men
- Book part
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Throughout the war, Dubliners served and died on fronts and in conditions very different to France and Belgium, and different even to Gallipoli. They experienced extremes of weather, including great heat and monsoons. Drinking water could be scarce, and the terrain unfamiliar. They contended with diseases previously unknown to them and which often proved to be greater hazards – or at least more persistent and costly – than enemy action. Yet features of these fronts were also similar to some conditions on the Western Front: cold, wet and mud.
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- Dublin's Great WarsThe First World War, the Easter Rising and the Irish Revolution, pp. 206 - 223Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018