When the Great War began in 1914, the armies on both sides brought new technologies to the battlefield the likes of which the world had never seen. The destruction and carnage caused by these new weapons was so exten…
“Nobody expects this,” friend and veteran Navy spouse Julie Donnelly said. “You watch it play out in your mind, people coming to your door telling you your husband’s never coming…
There is undoubtedly no worse place for troops to live and fight in than the trenches of old. Soldiers would dig fighting positions into the ground and, with no way to continually clear out the rodents, water, sewage, and bodies, the fortifications …