Trench_Warfare__Life_In_The_Trenches

Trench Warfare: Life In The Trenches World War One was a horrific event. The number of known dead has been placed at about 10,000,000 men. The main method of combat during the first world war a.k.a. the Great World War, was trench warfare. Trench warfare was one of the main reasons so many men died. It was a ruthless system of warfare, in which lines and lines of men were repeatedly mowed down, one after the other. Life in the trenches, on the daily, was filled with horror, and death. Death was a constant companion to those serving in the line, even when no raid or attack was launched or defended against. In busy sectors the constant shellfire directed by the enemy brought random death, whether their victims were lounging in a trench or lying in a dugout (many men were buried as a consequence of large shell-bursts). Similarly, novices were cautioned against their natural inclination to peer over the parapet of the trench into no man’s land. Many men died on their first day in the trenches as a consequence of a precisely aimed sniper’s bullet. It has been estimated that up to one third of allied casualties on the Western Front were actually sustained trenches, trench, war, men, warfare, one, land, soldiers, enemy, should, line, front, death, world, great, during, disease, died, been, throughout, thing, rats, out, must, movie, main, lines, life, lice, known, go, first, few, even, europe, country