We all know the stories of the horror of trench warfare in the First World War. Waves of soldiers clambering out of their trenches into a hail of gunfire and nests of barbed wire strewn across no ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The trenches systems were on every front of World War One. A front is a stretch of land where warring countries ...

Foreign recruits learn tactical techniques with the 25th Sicheslav Brigade, emphasizing close-quarters combat and coordinated ...

(See how World War I energized mapmaking at National Geographic.) Photographed in 1917, an endless line of Russian soldiers sit patiently in a trench as they anticipate a German attack. National ...

Co-directors Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza have crafted an immersive deep-in-the-trenches recreation of a battle Mendoza was a part of during the Iraq War. It’s an experience that is both mundane ...

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 ...

“It really has its roots in trench warfare that started very early, earlier than the American Army,” says Col. Francis Pera, USACE Baltimore District commander. Today, sappers are still combat ...

Scott Martin, R-Martic Township, secured the funding for the trench. During World War I, soldiers dug 35,000 miles of trenches. Thursday, about 450 Solanco High School ninth and 10th grade ...