THE 1914 WORLD WAR I CHRISTMAS TRUCE. TRENCNES AND 'NO MAN'S LAND'
Steve Osborn
One hundred and five years ago this Christmas Eve, The Great War, the “War to End All Wars” was in its fourth month. It had already bogged down into trench warfare. For those unfamiliar with the term, it consisted of many miles of trenches on either side of “No Man’s Land,” a strip of land of varying width, cratered with shell holes, filled with broken equipment, concertina wire, bodies, wounded and dying men. The men of both sides lived pretty much in misery, soaking wet, feet rotting, hunkered down in their trenches.
The “strategy” was pretty simple. A General on one side or the other would order his troops to attack. They would charge into ....
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