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 ...

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.

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This map was used by my grandfather, who served in France during the First World War with the Artists' Rifles ... The main British trenches are all named, many bearing names that must relate ...

United States Marines practice attacking and defending trenches. National Geographic Safe underground from the inhuman chaos of the battlefield above, the men of the First World War left these ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

Dan Snow:Hello, I'm Dan Snow. When we look back at World War One, the trenches are among the first things that come to mind. Those scars on the battlefield that played such a key role in the ...

The Eastern Front, February, 1917 The First World War had been raging for nearly three years. The battles were horrific. A combination of modern weaponry and antiquated tactics turned the fighting ...