Dig deep inside the battlefield of the Great War.

World War II was full of invasions, evasive maneuvers and constantly shifting styles of warfare. World War I, on the other hand, was about digging in and holding the line. The invasions of the Central powers at the beginning of the war quickly stalled, and the conflict became a war of attrition. Both sides lived in their deep trenches, with a desolate, dangerous “no man’s land” between them. The brutal conditions of the trenches are perhaps what World War I is most famous for - and that brutality is clear in the pictures.

See what it was like to live in the mud, and face the constant fear of what was lurking on the surface.