Developement of trench warefare.

An insight into WW1 trench war.

Harry Patch lived to be 111 years old. He only achieved a degree of fame when his numbers were better than everyone else’s.

During the fierce fighting endured by both sides during World War one the approach of the first Christmas in that conflict brought about one of the amazing attributes of man. Despite trying to kill their common enemy as the clock ticked over into the 25th day of December Christmas carols could be heard coming from the trenches of the German army.

A few facts on the Gallipoli campaign.

The French author Albert Dauzat told a fascinating legend that emerged from World War One in a book that was published two years after the Great War. Civilian skeptics laughed at the soldiers’ tales of the murderous giant hound of No Man’s Land, but to the soldiers it was a gruesome reality…

At last, in that grey winter of 1918, the guns in France and Flanders fell silent and an eerie stillness dwelt on the battlefields where the dead lay unburied in sodden trenches…

How bad were the conditions for soldiers in the trenches?

World War One and the main method of attack which was trench warfare.