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15 kwi 2024 · The scars of the Great War, which raged from 1914-18, remain visible in Europe more than 100 years after the fighting stopped. The conflict left its mark in a variety of forms, from bunkers and trenches to the scattered war memorabilia that remains buried beneath the former battlefields.
Episode 20: For most people, the phrase ‘First World War’ conjures up images of deep, waterlogged trenches and mud-spattered soldiers. But what was trench life really like? In this episode, those who survived it describe their experiences.
In this image by Irish landscape photographer Michael St. Maur Sheil at the site of the Battle of the Somme, in northern France, you can trace grass-covered trenches and pockmarks from exploded...
Known at the time as the Great War or simply the World War, the conflict that is today called World War I was virtually unprecedented in the slaughter, carnage, and destruction it caused. This is a glimpse into the daily lives of the troops in the trenches on both sides of the conflict.
For most people, the phrase ‘First World War’ conjures up images of deep, waterlogged trenches and mud-spattered soldiers. But what was trench life really like? In this episode, those who survived it describe their experiences.
Trenches were really the defining concept of the First World War. They were literally on every front. The Western Front most famously in France and Belgium, they were in Gallipoli, they were in the mountains of Northern Italy, they were in the Middle East, even in Africa. Trenches were everywhere.
28 maj 2018 · The preserved trenches and craters are part of the grounds on which the Newfoundland regiment made their unsuccessful attack on July 1, 1916, the opening day of the Battle of the Somme. #
