I quite like playing in the mud. But I’d probably feel different if I was a soldier in the trenches during World War One. WW1 SOLDIER JACK: Mud? Oh, we know all about mud here on the Western Front.

We got up, still completely dumb from fear of death, and helped them to bring our wounded into our trenches ... Recruiting soldiers in WW1. videoRecruiting soldiers in WW1 The different pressures ...

These traces, Gusky says, illuminate a forgotten world of World War I, connecting us to the individual soldiers, many of whom would not survive the nightmare of trench warfare. The conflict began ...

soldiers failed to understand the menace of the machine gun," recalled Dr. Fred Albee, an American surgeon working in France. "They seemed to think they could pop their heads up over a trench and ...

It might not sound like much to write home about, but the 21-year-old -- Lawrence Enderson Grimshaw -- happened to be a soldier stationed in the trenches during World War I. One century on ...

Michael St. Maur Sheil The first large battle fought by American soldiers in World War I took ... you can trace grass-covered trenches and pockmarks from exploded bombshells.