In the Trenches

On the Western Front, the war was fought in trenches.

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Trenches were long, narrow ditches dug into the ground where soldiers lived all day and night.

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There were many lines of German trenches on one side and many lines of Allied trenches on the other.

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In the middle, was no man's land, so-called because it did not belong to either army. Soldiers crossed No Man's Land when they wanted to attack the other side.