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Description of  The Trench: Life and Death on The Western Front 1914-1918

The First World War, and the horrors that came from it, scarred an entire generation at the beginning of the twentieth century. Now, one hundred years later, we come to remember this disastrous episode of history and try to understand what took place and why. Here is a straightforward account of the events, studying them through what was the setting for much of the carnage...the trench. The trench, and the trench system along the Western Front in particular, became the killing fields. Joined together, they formed a vast line of fortifications that locked the opposing armies together in a static, 400 mile zig zag of conflict from the channel coast down to the hills and rivers of central France. Between the