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The war was fought by men on foot, in a flat open country that gave no shelter from enemy fire
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By Ayesha Rizwi Contents 1) Trenches 2) Home Front 3) Weapons 4) War : - In the Air At Sea 5) Literacy War in the trenches The war was fought by men on foot, in a flat open country that gave no shelter from enemy fire. Facing armies dug trences as fortifications from which to defend their position or attack the enemy. When the Germans turned onto the Allies, they dug trenches on the River Aisne, as a line of defence. By mid-October, two lines of trenches faced each other from the Swiss border to the Channel coast. These single lines were soon to become a elaborate networks of defence. The trenches were fronted with masses of barbed wire and with strategically placed machine gun posts. These trench systems were everything except a let down. There were different sectors dividing up the trenches. There was a "cushy sector", where the men could just relax and take...
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