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=Plan of the Investigation (100-150 Words) Tips]= ** A.   ** Plan of Investigation This investigation will be focusing on returning home after World Wars One and Two. **(state the QUESTION)**. There will be two aspects to this: the difficulty of actually returning home and the mental effects of it. I have chosen this question because the horrors of war are often seen as lying in the domains of death, injury and illness, which of course they are, but they also include the more subtle characteristics such as returning home and the mental effect of that.


 * (RJT note - I take it you mean "the more subtle characteristics such as returning home and re-adjusting to civilian life" - if so, state this more clearly)**

The analysis will be divided into two parts. The first will be based on the difficulties and delays involved in returning home and the second will consider the mental effects of returning home after months, maybe years, of battle. Both parts will be looking at the First and Second World Wars individually.


 * (RJT note - and will you then conclude by drawing some overall comparisons?!)**

The sources that I will be using include an interview with Ken Stone, an ex WW2 soldier who fought in Bahrain and had to stay there for 16 months after, unable to get back to the UK. I will also be making use of the books “Goodbye To All That” by Robert Graves and “All Quiet On The Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque (of which two film versions also exist). I will also be studying Alan Allport’s (author of “Demobbed: Coming Home After World War Two”) archive on his website. Word count: 222 words