Describe the conditions that soldiers experienced on the western front in the years 1915-1917.

... Question One: Describe the conditions that soldiers experienced on the western front in the years 1915-1917. The First World War was a different type of warfare in all aspects. The original idea of the war was that it would be a fast moving one lasting for a few months rather than years. However, the advances of the Allied and German forces, soon slowed to a sudden and unexpected halt. The result was both sides were forced to dig trenches to defend their positions. For many soldiers the trenches would be their homes. They would eat and sleep in them from 1915 to when the war finally ended. "There, much like animals, they would die, in the miseries and dangers of the trenches" Lyn McDonald, 1987. Trenches however were not a new type of warfare, they had already been used in the American Civil war, and proved to be a disaster, this

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