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For the soldier on the Western Front begins 1915 with a stalemate.

The first months of World War I is the Germans failed by the Tea Break.

Is Running one frontline of course grave France by one Belgium.

Nearly 4 years, these men are working with the gruesome battle ever.

These years bring one Hideous new Weapon Voort poison gas.

A new disease: shell shock.

One huge strength:

The mine.

An in those years created the deadly expression & apos; Over the grave of Will & apos;.

It is the duty of every soldier on-one to face certain death.

Often nobody back.

If someone says to you...

that he was not afraid date he came out of the loop count...

ice he a liar.

The trench warfare on & apos; t Westfront has untold hardships as a result.

Thanks to new computer technology...

we get to see the as these men saw it.

In color.

At the beginning of 1915...

was the question for Joseph Joffre az & apos; n English allies...

how to break the deadlock condensed.

The Germans were in France Belgium one...

One stood at the other edge of one 750 km long Line of course grave.

You could not wait to go. Is had to happen.

The Germans were like: Do your best. We continue to sit.

The Allies were forcing so one breakthrough.

The war on the Western Front existed until 1918...

mainly of a series of attempts, which almost always failed...

On which forcing breakthrough tea.

The First Allied attempt by the Breaking tea was in the spring of 1915

Both Parties encountered soon the dangers of trench warfare.

As Communications, which was possible avenue thanks weary messengers.

During one battle are often messengers active DC...

which will almost certainly killed or wounded rake.

Yet I do not see those men delay or deny.

Each messenger carries the mandate immediately, just how dangerous that also ice.

He compact z & apos; n gun gone up one way. Usually, z & apos; n deaths.

The messengers Deden sometimes unclean one of several hundred meters.

By the time it received the message hatred... General

was the situation again changed dramatically.

Your one of the biggest drawbacks where but to do with hatred.

It was started in this chaos that the great offensives 1915.

The Allies planned one attack up two points.

The French at Artois...

a while the English 32 km away at Festubert.

French one British commanders thought one big attack...

the German line & apos; s would break so one mobile war was possible.

But They struck at Festubert and Artois in May 1915...

showed that it was not going to happen one that the war would continue.

The British realized which she plays was not big enough...

up on these manias tea be suffering such losses.

The operation in the spring of 1915 demanded one huge toll.

Thousands Allied soldier were dead, wounded or captured.

The British have always had a little playing. She was a naval power.

But the recruitment campaign Lord Kitchener...

yielded a large group new soldier up.

The professional soldier was amazed date he saw these recruits.

The British citizen taken hate the war.

Many old soldier Watched suspicious whenthey citizen warrior.

The armed citizen saw strange for the Conservatives evils us.

He was too small, he has looked lethargic out, one he wore glasses up.

He wore z & apos; n uniform not like heard, saluted wrong...

one was clumsy System z & apos; n arms on.

The old soldier saw little merit in.

Kitchener & apos; s men came to first action in September 1915...

on the Impact of Loos.

The aim was on along with the French They German line & apos; s tea break.

But it went as usual:

artillery bombardment, followed by the infantry...

followed by a bloodbath.

The ground was littered with the wounded one death.

We had no time to stop one hit is all quickly used to it.

Everywhere sheet bodies. One of them had a letter in z & apos; n hand...

he probably read hatred before he died.

By Loos fell for the first a high number of casualties on British edge.

Example & apos; n 43,000.

The British claimed this & apos; n new commander to: Douglas Haig.

The carnage on the Western Front was only amps begun.

During the second year of the war...

Were hundreds of thousands of men from different countries mailwhen front...

A z & apos; n unknown horrors.

The Worst of all was the walk grave Come out.

It is impossible to describe what tea is through you gone While waiting.

Your head is full of wild thoughts where you no control than we learned.

Friends loved one, where you've been, period of your life:

You see it all back like it was yesterday.

We lived really minute by minute...

one we knew it or not our last minute would be or not.

A so was the atmosphere in the loop grave.

Everyone was disciplined tea waiting for the order.

If the order was given, had is to be obeyed immediately.

Everyone was waiting tea was given to the order.

Rake We lost more men, but no hooks or.

I am proud that I belong to these people...

who know exactly what awaits them state, yet shout sing one.

I always asked in advance, even though some guys laughed at me then.

I asked good on me like a real tea Let's wait Fighting...

a metal to return intact Let technician.

If someone says to you...

that he was not afraid date he came out of the loop count...

ice he a liar.

Because you could no simple torque sure...

that's not something a bullet flew with your name on it.

The men & apos; t front were nowhere no one she weapons artillery support.

But much was bombed that the stock quickly ran out.

Before World War was the British playing out as & apos; n 200,000 men.

As our armaments industry was also set up.

Haig said: We are halfway passport 1917 ready for a major offensive.

He Knew the industry than passport would be big enough...

on Wed the weapons one grenade for as & apos; n operation tea liver.

Is huge, many women were put to work in the munitions factories .

Explosives making was annoying, devoted to an dangerous.

Wed hair one saw our faces is bright yellow out.

One doctor told us: The Half of you will never have children.

Some conductive really evils. They were & apos; canaries & apos; mentioned.

Because they worked with TNT, was she skin yellow. It was really bad.

What exactly stain your hands up one discolored hair?

What is there really to considering our men die...

Or else maimed for life or are blind.

The ammunition made by women They loved the waves running at the front.

But the effect up the human spirit was grueling.

Surprises me is how many or even have one while you.

Day One night is falling on few minutes one grenade at your nearby.

It looks like an earthquake one hits you almost unconscious of the flap.

These barrages were Dire so big...

them you thought were impossible .

One grenade barrage really was Horrible.

I really do not understand how someone something to survival.

I got hit by a jagged shrapnel of about 5 cm.

He was in m & apos; n groin.

The doctor came to me early one: Will I remove the shrapnel?

It did incredible amount of pain.

He said: I have to say is at it can not under anesthesia.

I said how long the process gone?

Said About two minutes.

I thought is as morethan after, one date I said: Do it.

Then two minutes had elapsed, I con which rotdokter to strangle.

This huge barrages came a new phenomenon: shell shock.

M & apos; n leave at the end of 1915 was a nightmare.

I always dreamed of sounds one voice out of the war.

It was the voice of officers one dead.

When I woke up one morning, I stood up in bed, ready for battle.

I really felt pain in m & apos; n heart.

I had lost a lot of men I loved.

If you had cargo from shell shock...

you just could not Move.

It seemed like you entire nervous system was shut down.

If a Guy shell shock hatred one he came up the ladder does not...

he was executed for cowardice. But hatred nothing to do with it.

Is was in the loop grave anything else new one was Horrible: poison gas.

Chlorine was used beginning in 1915 for the first by the Germans.

The Allies soon followed.

The face of the guys who are not sheltered sheet, changed color.

She face a female hands were slow a blue green.

She sheet with her legs pulled up the a seized When She throat.

We had one tube in our mouth one we breathed through a cloth.

That you did in your collar so the gas is not under con Komen.

I've been through a gas attack, one that was more than enough.

I held it up tarpaulin m & apos; n head, but hindsight...

two guys is not against condensed a derided Cloth.

M & apos; n gas masks fell apart because I used it as often.

Is Came all flush in m & apos; n anda one I could not see.

I layer with another man in one count full course wounded one death.

I layer the whole day tea harvest, a When breath tea chatter in the loop count.

In 1916 hate the trench warfare still nothing.

Both parties knew that something had to be done.

The Germans had she O and up the French fortress of Verdun Let whey.

The German commander, General von Falkenhayn...

thought Verdun as & apos; n great symbolic value hatred...

everyone that the French would allow work on to protect it.

It was not z & apos; n intent on conquering Verdun tea.

Wilde He's kind banquets wound end of it...

where the French forces all she would lose...

trying this holy city tea Preserve.

The French defended Verdun...

One so began one of the most gruesome massacres in the history .

Falkenhayn hatred They Frenchmen good wing chat.

Henri Petain saw Verdun as a symbol of national pride.

Verdun is threatened, but can not be conquered.

If they take the city, ice that the Germans of inestimable value.

On February 21, 1916 Began the German bombardment.

Petain & apos; s troops were ready for the Battle.

M & apos; n Faster heart was beating date I saw our guys go in Verdun.

But I also remembered that she enthusiasm quickly on tea would hit...

suffer fatigue in one.

It is terrible here in Verdun. Our faces look is inhuman.

We wash our one sleep all 16 days not.

We live between the the death a the dying. It's Horrific a meadow.

We have sunken cheeks one down our clothes covered with mud.

It was depressing to see the troops returning tea.

Up she faces was the terror or read. She saw is discouraged.

She Walked chrome by horrible hereinbefore ordination.

If anything I asked, condensed she barely answers.

Despite the violent attacks were the stocks replenished weekly.

The road but used, was the & apos; Sacred Way & apos; mentioned.

Falkenhayn & apos; s plan worked only partially.

Die & apos; Sacred Way & apos; symbolized the Resistance of the French firm.

He gave France a long way up the knees, but not quite.

Because of him rose the patriotism of the French to an unprecedented level.

The Impact of Verdun lasted until November.

Fell on either edge is as & apos; n 350,000 victims.

Approximately 100,000 French one as many Germans were dead or missing.

Meanwhile Hoped France up the aid of z & apos; n ally.

The British attacked the Germans at the Somme.

The British wanted to she offensive by the German line & apos; s Breaking...

followed by a rapid advance.

The officers told she bombardment men it would be so bad...

them without problems When the upper edge would run skills.

Rumour we gone the sleeves the ground will equalize.

It seems that the Germans devotes day the time have about anger tea Close.

I do not like to brag, but when you see all those guns...

all those grenade one trench mortars...

If the Kaiser Did how well prepared we are, he would take poison.

The bombardment began up June 24 one lasted one week.

15,000 guns were arranged along one frontline of 30 kilometers.

The infantry waited.

M & apos; n dearest, before I go to sleep I should m & apos; a girl get some writing.

I got your letter today one eye sounds Merry.

I love you, m & apos; n darling, Keep Courage.

Pray that this war quickly over ice so I come to care about you.

Much love one kiss a lot, you Willy.

William Clark died on the first day.

Others, like Arthur Hubbard, survived.

I hope we are successful up Saturday morning July 1...

if you are sleep tea, one we expel the Germans.

Hopefully nothing happens to me.

I see before me how everyone home ice. The garden will be almost up z & apos; n are best.

I assume the receipt soon Mature. Much love, your bridges Arthur.

They Were ready the loop grave to come out, she fate met.

The anxiety again pleadings were afraid a encourage the elated.

They raved one experienced life much more intense.

Anywhere on Sat next one for us fell one wavered men.

One grenade exploded tea amid one group one way men were.

Our section was among the wounded through.

Even if they were to save, condensed vi they do not help.

It sounds heartless, but what a great war.

Kenneth Macardle died a few weeks later in the battle of the Somme.

Many of the volunteers of 1914...

had come previously When France .

Not for the walking grave marten on the Germans beat tea.

Unfortunately it did not go as planned.

On this beautiful morning in July was about half past eight the attack started.

The men Walked by & apos; t Never land reach in the hope she aims tea...

but on the other edge they were received up one Gigantic barrage.

The war on the Western Front hatred always yielded no breakthrough yet.

Simple one dead destruction.

After the first day of the Somme 19,000 Englishmen had been killed.

Is 40,000 were wounded.

The Worst Day from the British military history.

If the Englishmen the Impact of the Somme after today had to let off...

then hate it could not.

They had to fight so that the drinking up Verdun was not too big.

The Strategic Value of sacrifice she hatred little significance for the soldier.

Dear meetings I write you as if tea say everything gone well with me.

Tell the mother of one Gwyn Archie but not that they did something happen ice.

I'm More About Grosvenor Road still on ice.

The world no longer exists...

for Vaudry, Kenworthy, Chesham, Sproat, Ford...

one for a lot of others we do not know.

Victor is dead.

Z & apos; n married a year six older woman is now no longer a problem.

We are tonight system 400 can, where this morning were still 800.

After that first day disappeared also the concept of friends battalions.

This battalion were up established local level.

Friends of clubs, theater groups one Churches signed up together.

In 1914 your one huge craze.

The verwerd in 1916 a great tragedy...

because the men who went to war together , were killed together.

Entire streets were plunged into mourning.

Both Sides made illusion place reality.

What was a life worth in this wilderness?

The air was filled with the stench of thousands of rotting corpses .

The dead layer in each shell hole up the silos...

one was so ruthless that you yourself were ruthless.

Chivalry was here to look far.

All trees are on. The entire country chap ice destroyed.

Is ice nothing but mud one one chaotic collection craters.

Many of them lie the bodies of the fallen .

After the battle the Germans Said: Something like that should never happen.

It was traumatic for the English, but also for the Germans.

The Allies Did devotes half month or eleven kilometers.

It provided 600,000 victims up.

The German losses were just as great.

It was for years not been so cold as in the winter of 1916.

The ground remained frozen until April.

Diseases like trench fever one dysentery took an alarming rate.

But even now it did not murder up.

Artillery, mortars, machine guns one snipers...

Made for & apos; n constant flow victims.

Is plans were made for new offensives in 1917.

Both parties showed new one ammunition stocks Komen.

The soldier in the loop grave found other voltage much more important.

For the soldier at the front counted only two voltage: food one the post.

The English post was amazingly good.

One letter from the front was still delivered the same day.

That's better than the day today.

They sent us one stucco cake often one coffee cans cans of milk.

Condensed milk one also which type of milk one who was dating so popular.

All Helpful voltage which we shared.

Example sock. Frame your a few sock shaped gate in it hatred.

You got a new sock & apos; n another. We shared with everyone together.

We shared even our family.

We read each other's letters. When I wrote date two girls at once.

1916 not only for the soldier but also she leaders fatal.

Falkenhayn was fired for Verdun...

az & apos; n replacements were Paul von Hindenburg one Erich von Ludendorff...

in 1914 the Russians had fresh sheets.

They realized that the great German losses 1916...

meant that tea was little for men & apos; t long front.

They showed Build one huge defense system : the Hindenburg Line.

One 6 km wide barricade of concrete fortifications.

The new British Prime Minister David Lloyd George...

Wanted Douglas Haig, the Brain behind the Somme offensive fire.

But it did not. Haig & apos; s reputation was too big.

The French, by contrast sacked Joseph Joffre.

He was replaced by Robert Nivelle.

Nivelle thought & apos; n Improved combination Artillery one fast infantry...

would break through the German line.

Nivelle wanted z & apos; n theory try in the hilly Chemin des Dames.

According z & apos; n level were the Englishmen one week earlier at Arras attacks...

on the German reservists away blandishments.

Up April 9, 1917 opened the Englishmen the attack.

Morning Will we run the grave from one ring road, we graze the Krauts tea.

I have all confidence in m & apos; n Battalion. They go through until the bitter end.

I told them the proper socket They agreed one sleeve has died.

If we give up the sleeves she thunder, they give themselves for anywhere or above.

In the beginning was the English attack at Arras quite successful.

The Canadians took Vimy in...

a the British booked up one day the most gains to date.

Example & apos; n 5 kilometers.

But they did not know how as & apos; n breakthrough had to consolidate.

Arras changed in & apos; n attrition.

Now it was the turn of the French, at Chemin des Dames.

Plan Nivelle know however defects.

Because of the bad SECURITY They were Germans up the height of the operation.

Moreover the Germans retreated When She new frame assembly.

The area that wanted to conquer Nivelle, was already largely of him.

The new German line was Incredibly strong...

one looked out of the positional functions one of the French infantry artillery.

Up April 16 opened the French the attack.

No one knows how we go Come no upside to be shot.

We stumble through, lie for the explosions, one stand up again.

It rains we sink into the mud.

We hurry When one place where the missing chien much worse ice.

It is impossible about here unharmed tea.

In one night are more guns fired than in the time of Napoleon.

The exhausted one hong rich men in the loop grave...

Went to war one muttered: Not everyone can be one successfully.

The Germans had adapted she defense.

She showed she front line & apos; s relatively open.

But behind were new armed forces tea wait:

Storm Troops who use the counterattack...

when the French soldier were exhausted.

After five hours Chemin des Dames...

had the storm troops 130,000 casualties on the French side.

French plays hate all the Impact of Verdun behind the rye.

Nearly every French soldier had thereby been present.

Not long afterwards came Nivelle System z & apos; n great offensive...

which quickly one end to the war would make.

Then your also ended in disaster, had the French soldier had.

French soldier mutiny began tea.

Everyone is above mutiny one nobody wants z & apos; n relieve comrades.

It often happens that soldier hoses remain at the front...

because she substitutes refuse to come.

The rebellion was not directed against officers one they speak was maintained.

The soldier simply refused to proceed with the offering himself up tea.

Robert Nivelle was replaced by They save of Verdun, Henri Petain.

Petain maintained the voice by Means of discipline one a few executions.

He also made it is better was provided for the soldier.

Due to a number of requirements tea meeting he was playing in the French & apos; t line.

Despite this, the French & apos; one year no lung attacks implement more...

One they restricted themselves to defend.

Petain feared that the Germans would take advantage of the French crisis...

but strangely enough they did not notice that.

The British were the only ones who still condensed attacks.

Haig was planning a major attack at the Messines Ridge...

one plateau or kilometers plate country faced.

Herbert Plumer, one modern General had the shaping operation.

The officers were soon realized that he was someone with fresh dental Affairs.

Nothing was left to chance. We even had & apos; n enormous model...

when the boss a villages scale up were reconstructed.

It was made incredible button.

It looked like toys. The children had found it beautiful.

English, one Australian New Zealand troops attacked together.

One destructive weapon, the mine posted by tunnel diggers...

was used for the first up widely.

The tunnel diggers had the worst job of all.

The grave of narrow tunnels evils the line & apos; s enemy was scary...

because you know that the enemy same was doing.

Under these circumstances, one was all my construct dangerous enough...

But in addition to the natural hatred dig They also agree with the enemy.

One grenade up the shaft opening the air con blocker...

one then you were convicted to a horrible death.

The idea you up & apos; once the enemy encounter con, was not really nice.

The bravest men gift that they were afraid...

Date they digging enemy evils themselves heard.

As long as they heard what they were safe. The silences were so frightening.

Dropped the enemy z & apos; n up my Sharp, beaten than hatred she last hours.

Up 7 June were 19 mines the evils of Messines Ridge Sharp put.

The Dawn had not yet arrived. The night was very calm.

The fatal moment came slowly getting closer.

When the silence was a darkness to the front door broken 20 mines.

Some sheet is already more than 2 years. A few hundred tons of explosives...

went with a deafening noise A & apos; n towering flames into the air.

Is developed huge clouds full substance earth one tree.

I saw huge aches earth as big as houses When Komen below.

I saw the flames silhouetted & apos; n Up to die was cast.

Probably one arm sleeve. It was Horrible. It seemed a whole.

The English took the strategically important in Messines Ridge.

The explosions were up to in the southeast of England tea whore.

Na & apos; t English success at Messines Began late July 1917 the Third Impact at Ypres.

Followed by the Impact

The German line was 15 days long harassed.

Until your dismay you feel that your body one mind PROPOSALS nothing at all.

The stucco metal that nothing of Do you really, ice for anywhere already underway.

The English came up July 31 from the loop grave.

What would you have had here tonight When you want.

It'll be leukemia. If it is not raining.

But it rained.

Your were the worst ice conditions which fought in WW.

Historians debate is still above whether it was wise Haig.

I think Haig little choice hatred.

Two poor of the 123rd brigade are Drowned, or basically suffocated.

They were stuck in the mud one his date fatigue have fallen.

Our boys have the Horrible. They sit until she Means in the mud.

It looks like a ditch.

Is hundreds died horses men, car & apos; sa trucks.

You have to stay on the road, otherwise you will sink .

The Somme was bad, but it is a thousand times worse.

I celebrated m & apos; n 19th anniversary in the loop grave at Passchendaele.

The Germans were at Passchendaele higher than us.

She Looked up us down.

Three Day Long bombed she walk grave.

They were wiped out completely.

When our guys got there, they expected but & apos; a few Germans.

They thought they conquer Passchendaele went.

Suddenly the Germans came emerged with a few machine guns.

A way they were. The attack was called off.

It was a fiasco.

Arms Shorty. He told me sometimes or z & apos; n girlfriend Hilda...

one the house he bought all hatred.

He wanted to marry her one then come to us.

He was crazy up Hilda, but he will unfortunately never see hair . Arms stacks.

He always gave me the Half of what he hatred. You make real friends here.

Hopefully it the war no longer lung. We lenge the Germans back.

They will surrender soon, one then we fine skills back home.

I know now how great it home ice. Good bless you one our children.

May He soon again with me m & apos; n Involved loved ones again. Love, Jack.

Jack Mudd was killed devotes days later.

For some soldier's murder was too much.

Is Came one edge up my German.

But I could not be death to him. I was not allowed death to him.

I remember, I date network was in the playing...

I solemnly promised on for one king wading country tea Fighting.

But suddenly flashed by m & apos; n head...

That Moses from the mountain or Came...

one at the Sixth Commandment that he himself hatred read: Gijon will not be death.

I con him not death.

I hate five seconds on one decision tea ring road.

I hit him bow z & apos; n one simple bow z & apos; knee.

I shot him, to death without him.

In 15 weeks was only 106 square kilometers captured.

Every square kilometers cost as & apos; n 4000 victims.

The English also had huge made many German victims.

After the Impact at Passchendaele, in the first week in November 1917...

hatred the all semblance of that both Parties no more condensate.

That they were completely exhausted.

But is was a new weapon which was experimented years:

the tank.

Not long after Passchendaele booked the tank one glorious Victory in Cambrai.

The British Putting first so many tanks.

It was also important that they using Targeted Artillery.

They condensed so immediately bombard without first a few times Firing tea...

on tea out where the grenade fell. That was a surprise element.

Is bombardment was no advance on the Germans warn tea.

The enemy infantry hit up the flight...

or rendering whenthey British line on Giving over tea.

We were fascinated by what we saw.

Our tanks tore up.

Continuing They rumbled through the gate cheese one of shell craters craters.

A few made it, but most They came to the top edge.

Tonight I sleep where one yesterday sleep unsuspecting socket layer tea.

Frame all those hundreds of tanks one hundred guns for...

which were quietly an secretly ready.

I still find it unbelievable.

Is were 11,000 German prisoners. Cambrai was a resounding success gutters.

Everywhere in England were the bell to sound on Celebrating.

But for many soldier on the front lines was & apos; n or extraction as other all.

The British morale would never Breaking, but found himself well up & apos; n low.

The war is becoming more desperate. Everywhere you see one Unrest discontent.

If nothing is done about to meet complaints.

The misery is really indescribable. Is ice everywhere Unrest one uncertainty.

Everyone is totally had it.

1918 stood at the door.

The war on the Western Front would be decided soon.