We all know the stories of the horror of trench warfare in the First World War. Waves of soldiers clambering out of their trenches into a hail of gunfire and nests of barbed wire strewn across ...
Its story is less about the realities of trench warfare; like the 1991 novel on which it is based, it is concerned with what happens to the soldiers afterward, and how they deal with the trauma of ...
On this day 110 years ago, French and British forces along the Marne River were suffering through arguably the most important battle of World War I ... ushered in the horrors of trench warfare.
Canadian soldiers were among the first to witness the horrors of modern warfare as "the war to end ... as they died were just heaved behind the trench." The Germans waited for the gas to clear ...
Defence became the priority, the digging of trenches developed and they were employed for the duration of the war. Both the British and German armies used trench systems which they saw as a ...