How did the fighting on the Western front change during the first world war
The fighting on the Western front did not stay exactly the same between 1914 and 1918. ... Another major change was the artillery – at the beginning of the war it was very inaccurate and by the end it was much more precise and powerful. ... People did not expect the war to develop in the way it did. In 1914 people expected that Britain would win the war and be home by Christmas. ... At the beginning of the war the artillery was not accurate and often meant that they hit their own trenches before they got the range right.