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Trenches
Fighting
on
the
Western
Front
in
World
War
I
Trenches
Fighting
on
the
Western
Front
in
World
War
I
ABOUT
THE
BOOK
was
known
as
the
Great
War
and
it
has
been
called
the
end
of
an
age
of
innocence.
The
young
who
marched
off
to
fight
in
it
expected
a
war
of
great
adventure
and
an
opportunity
for
personal
heroism.
But,
as
Dorothy
and
Thomas
Hoobler
point
out
in
this
fascinating
book,
the
young
idealists
were
doomed
It
to
disappointment.
had
been
scratched
across
the
face
of
Europe
from
the
North
Sea
to
the
Alps.
Two
oppos-
ing
lines
of
trenches
had
been
dug,
and
crouching
inside
them
were
the
armies
of
England,
France,
and
Germany
facing
each
other
in
deadly
combat.
They
would
remain
there
for
more
than
three
years.
These
soldiers,
rather
than
finding
glory
in
war,
died
by
the
hundreds
of
thousands
in
senseless
battles
while
the
survivors
lived
like
rats
in
filth
and
mud
from
day
to
of
1914,
a
gigantic
gash
By
the
end
day.
With
a
realism
not
tell
for
the
squeamish,
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Hoobler
as
rarely
has
been done
before
the
nightmare
of
living
and
dying
on
the
Western
Front
in
World
photographs,
vivid
words.
War
I.
Extraordinary
many
never
published
before,
illustrate
their

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