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Why was Trench Warfare so terrible
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Why was Trench Warfare so terrible? The first thing to do is to define 'terrible' because it helps to answer the question with full meaning. The dictionary definition of the word is; "causing fear, dread or terror, exceptionally bad or displeasing or intensely, extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality." Most of these suggest conditions were almost impossible to bear and it was hard to 'see the bright side'. World War 1 was like nothing that had ever happened in the world before. Almost no-one except the ruling politicians agreed with it, which has been proven by soldier's diaries, and most famously the football match between the British and the Germans on Christmas Day 1914. What began as a rapid war of movement soon settled down to static trench warfare and became a brutal war of attrition. Both the Germans and the French and British began digging trenches to stay...
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