Life in the Trenches

The subterranean boredom, terror, and chaos of World War I

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From above, the trenches looked almost beautiful.

The Great War was the first in which the combatants used airplanes. Though these nascent air forces did conduct some bombing, their primary job was to look down on the battlefield…