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By the end of 1914 the German advance had stalled, the armies had dug in, and an extensive network of trenches stretched from the North Sea coast to the Swiss border. An arms race led to the first ...

A postcard discovered in the diary of a German World War One officer has led his descendant to bring a message sent to the trenches more than a century ago back to the family of a fallen British ...

Canadian troops stand ready to repel a German attack on the trenches. One soldier keeps a look out using a periscope to see over edge of the trench. Around 650,000 Canadian soldiers fought in WW1.

After pulverizing the German trenches the big guns would gradually increase their range to provide a protective “creeping barrage,” behind which the attackers could advance in relative safety.

The men who marched believed, as the German kaiser and others promised ... dominant symbol of the Great War was: the trench. From the autumn of 1914 until the autumn of 1918, the armies of ...

Somehow or other — I don’t know how to this day — I found myself at nightfall in German trenches. I saw several of them smoking cigarettes. I knew that if they knew of my visit the greetings ...

The quaint villages which escaped the German onslaught perch ... An American WWI soldier writes a letter while encased in a trench. Photograph by Harriet Chalmers Adams, Nat Geo Image Collection ...