Describe the trench warfare of World War I .
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. .The most prominent feature of the World War I battlefield was the trench, A typical Allied front trench was about six to eight feet deep, about four feet wide, and separated from the German front trench by a narrow strip of land-no man's land-fifty yards to a mile wide, with masses of coiled barbed wire in front of each set of trenches. A few hundred yards behind the firing trenches were support and reserve trenches, all linked by communication trenches which enabled men to move between the rear and the front. German trenches were similar but, in general, deeper and more elaborate. Behind the trenches were rail lines that brought in fresh troops and supplies and evacuated the wounded and men on leave. Between the two lines of enemy trenches were the killing fields. Traversing no man's land would be certain suicide, but at night this area was busy with scouting expeditions and soldiers repairing defenses. The trenches were filthy, fetid, and terrifying. Shell shock was experienced for the first time, as soldiers began to go mad with the constant trauma. After a fusillade of shelling, soldiers would be ordered "over the top" of their own trenches and into a spray of machine gun fire, in a rarely unsuccessful effort to break the stalemate of their position vis-à-vis the enemy. In brief, life in the trench was an unrelenting misery.
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