The western front - source related questions and answers
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Frances Tugwell History Coursework 1. What does Source A reveal about the difficulties fighting on the western front? The source show no mans land. This was a stretch of land between the two opposing trenches, sometime it was only a few hundred meter wide, this was the land both sides were fighting to capture. I know that big guns were used during the war because in the source you can see the craters, which were where shells from the big guns had landed and lifted up the earth and you can see the half knocked down trees which would have been hit by shrapnel or the shells themselves. The barbed wire was used defensively to slow down any opposing attacks; the barbed wire would be laid in front of the most forward trench in huge coils. There were gaps in the wire so that they could get through it to attack, however...


