Photographed in 1917, an endless line of Russian soldiers sit patiently in a trench as they anticipate a German attack. National Geographic Nearby, on one of the tunnel walls, our headlamps ...

A trench was dug on one side protecting Scots and other Allied soldiers, whilst nearby, a second, housing the German army, was separated by forty-five to two hundred and thirty metres of ‘No Man ...

Dig in: At the Aisne, the Germans put to use one tiny advantage that would come to define the whole war: spades to dig trenches. German soldiers carried them; British and French troops did not.

It was immediately leveraged for political gain—simultaneously embraced and denigrated by opposing political and cultural factions in a Germany undergoing tremendous upheavals in every segment ...