Waves of soldiers clambering out of their trenches into a hail of gunfire and nests of barbed wire strewn across no-man’s land. Artillery shells exploding all around them as they advanced while ...

British munitions factories produced over 170 million artillery shells during WW1. As trenches were very good at defending soldiers from the direct attacks of enemy soldiers, other methods for ...

They played key roles in: By the later years of WWI, the use of horses had shifted primarily to transport, as trench warfare made traditional cavalry nearly impossible. For many soldiers ...