


Furthermore, it was the first war that was extensively photographed and one public exhibit during that war, The Dead of Antietam, made for such a powerful impression that one reviewer described it as much like distributing the war dead on the streets of the city. The American Civil War prompted another early expression of the trope: Union General William Sherman is commonly credited with saying " War is Hell." It was the first true industrial war and chewed through the American population and countryside. However, after the Thirty Years' War ended, European militaries grew smaller and wars further from the people (until the Napoleonic Wars, at least), and the trope receded. As a result, several artists of the period depicted war as a distinctly nasty experience, and popular accounts like sayings seem to confirm a rather gloomy attitude. The mass armies and new military techniques also meant that it directly affected a large segment of the population. The earliest recognized instance of widespread belief in this trope is probably the Thirty Years War, which dragged on forever, ruined Germany, and involved such frequent changes of alliances that nobody was really sure why anyone was fighting anybody. As photographs, film and other forms of mass media from the front became more and more common, this trope became more and more mainstream, eventually replacing that tradition. There is a long tradition of glorifying war: bravery, discipline, manliness, martyrdom and the right of the strong to take from the weak. Historically, this trope might be Newer Than They Think. Truth in Television, though fiction may exaggerate, and the degree to which this is true will vary from war to war, country to country, and even soldier to soldier. War Is Hell works often show the cumulative effect of exposure to deprivation, violence, and military culture: the horror goes on and on, brutalising people a little more each night. There is a correlation between being on the losing side of a war and making a work following this trope: compare treatments of World War II and Vietnam War. Sometimes, the war is shown to be unwinnable, despite all the sacrifices made. For the average man and woman, the force of wartime authority overrides any thought of their own. The motives for war are depicted as being irrationally base survival, dogma, fear, hatred, insanity, personal conquest, or even all of the above prevail. Sherman, "War is all Hell, and I have every intent of making it so." Most people quoting it shorten it to the trope name. This trope gained its name by the famous quote from General William T. Those who take pleasure in it are Ax Crazy Blood Knights or wo rse. When this trope is in play, war is a hellish, traumatizing nightmare, and anyone who comes out of it alive will end up a Shell-Shocked Veteran. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. All new trope pages will be made with the "Trope Workshop" found on the "Troper Tools" menu and worked on until they have at least three examples.Pages that don't do this will be subject to deletion, with or without explanation. All new pages should use the preloadable templates feature on the edit page to add the appropriate basic page markup. All images MUST now have proper attribution, those who neglect to assign at least the "fair use" licensing to an image may have it deleted.Failure to do so may result in deletion of contributions and blocks of users who refuse to learn to do so.
#TV TROPES TOTAL WAR THREE KINGDOMS MANUAL#
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