Trenches were long, narrow ditches dug into the ground. They were very muddy. Some soldiers developed a problem called trench foot. In the middle was no man's land. Soldiers crossed this to attack ...

Have you ever wondered what it takes to survive a day in the military? The painstakingly early mornings, the gruelling and ...

Life in the quarries was vastly preferable to the muddy hell of the trenches above. A journalist visiting one of the caverns in 1915 noted that “a dry shelter, straw, some furniture, a fire ...