Like other soldiers in the war ... to Middlesex War Hospital for treatment where he was found to be suffering from "trench fever" and valvular disease of the heart (VDH). Both were common ...

The British bombardment of German trenches at the Battle of the Somme in 1916 lasted for eight days! The horror and destruction of these bombardments caused great suffering to soldiers.

It was quickly copied by the Germans as both sides sought chemical agents which would seep into trenches ... 9.7 million soldiers killed in total during the war, the fear and suffering caused ...

The very nature of trench warfare, moreover, proved diabolically conducive to facial injuries: "[T]he...soldiers failed to understand the menace of the machine gun," recalled Dr. Fred Albee ...

Photographed in 1917, an endless line of Russian soldiers sit patiently in a trench as they anticipate a German attack. National Geographic Nearby, on one of the tunnel walls, our headlamps ...

Nine million would die. In Killing Fields, soldiers from all sides remember the trenches and the tactics, the food, the fleas, the casualties -- the terrible nature and scale of the slaughter that ...