blackswaneuroparedux:Trench fighting is the bloodiest, wildest, most brutal of all….Of all the war’s
blackswaneuroparedux:Trench fighting is the bloodiest, wildest, most brutal of all….Of all the war’s exciting moments none is so powerful as the meeting of two storm troop leaders between narrow trench walls. There’s no mercy there, no going back, the blood speaks from a shrill cry of recognition that tears itself from one’s breast like a nightmare.- Ernst Jünger, Storm of Steel Note that the diagram (while hard to read) states ‘Ideal’ Trench. Even if there was time, manpower and supplies to put the trench in such a state in the first place, it needed constant maintaining and a single shell could knock an entire section back to square one. Different sections of trench, depending on circumstances and armies, went through every degree of mud from ‘ideal’ to ‘abysmal’ to ‘uninhabitable’. -- source link
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