We all know the stories of the horror of trench warfare in the First World War. Waves of soldiers clambering out of their ...

(See how World War I energized mapmaking at National Geographic.) Photographed in 1917, an endless line of Russian soldiers sit patiently in a trench as they anticipate a German attack. National ...

Soldiers were encouraged to wash their feet regularly and often had their feet inspected. On the Western Front, the war was fought by soldiers in trenches. Trenches were long, narrow ditches dug ...

Dan Snow:Hello, I'm Dan Snow. When we look back at World War One, the trenches are among the first things that come to mind. Those scars on the battlefield that played such a key role in the ...

That was - historian Andy Robertshaw insists - the experience of most soldiers in the First World War. It was not one of constant fighting, never-ending trench foot and heartless aggression from ...

"Every fracture in this war is a huge open wound," one American doctor reported, "with a not merely broken but shattered bone at the bottom of it." The very nature of trench warfare, moreover ...

Military historian and World War One enthusiast Brian Kenny is so dedicated to the cause that he single-handedly dug a trench in his back yard to recreate the conditions endured by so many in ...