Category Archives: The Great War (1914 – 1918)

There are photographs of the First World War that show generals, ruined towns, artillery pieces and great moments of history. And then there are photographs like this. Four French soldiers stand in a trench filled with brown water. The mud has climbed the walls, collected around their boots and turned the narrow passage into somethingContinue reading “In the Mud of the Trenches: The Ordinary War of the Poilu”