I quite like playing in the mud. But I’d probably feel different if I was a soldier in the trenches during World War One. WW1 SOLDIER JACK: Mud? Oh, we know all about mud here on the Western Front.

That was - historian Andy Robertshaw insists - the experience of most soldiers in the First World War. It was not one of constant fighting, never-ending trench foot and heartless aggression from ...

Military historian and World War One enthusiast Brian Kenny is so dedicated to the cause that he single-handedly dug a trench in his back yard to recreate the conditions endured by so many in ...

In this special episode, the doctors turn back the clock to find out more about what medicine was like in World War One. They look at the little critters that infested the trenches, and set up a ...

This story originally appeared in the August 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine as "The Hidden World of the Great War ... of the trenches above. A journalist visiting one of the caverns ...