Trenches became valuable to WW1 armies because they were a defensive solution to modern weaponry. Before the war, many people thought that the battles would consist of thousands of advancing in ...

but arguably the biggest reason was because it was the first truly modern war fought on a massive scale that we have never witnessed since. Gone were the days of stagnant trench warfare or where ...

Every war begins in blind folly and ends in unimagined suffering. This is true of all wars but especially of the First World ...

(See how World War I energized mapmaking at National Geographic.) Photographed in 1917, an endless line of Russian soldiers sit patiently in a trench as they anticipate a German attack. National ...

Canadian Lieutenant Colonel Ian Sinclair described the scene: "Our trenches were shortly ... first effective gas attack in modern warfare. During First World War, gas attacks killed or injured ...