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Tools of Trench Warfare:
The signature aspect of the First World War in Europe was the protracted stalemate of trench warfare. After a brief period of mobility over the battlefield in the first months of the conflict, the opposing armies settled into a long and deadly war of attrition.
Thousands of miles of elaborate trenches, shrouded in barbed wire, defined the front lines that moved little during the years of fighting. The devastated landscape between the opposing trenches was referred to as "no man's land" because of the constant artillery shelling and machine gun fire. Certain pieces of equipment were ubiquitous in and around the trenches. |