The History Cat: Stalemate on the Western Front

Summarizes the military efforts of the British and the Germans to defeat the enemy early in the war, which resulted in lengthy trench warfare along the Western Front. This led to the use of poisonous gases by each side, with deadly consequences. Other aspects of trench warfare are also described, such as their construction, the tedium of living in a trench, and the inevitable sickness from being in such close quarters.