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The Trenches
• In September, 1914, the German commander, General Erich von Falkenhayn ordered his men to dig trenches that would provide them with protection from the advancing French and British troops. As the Allies soon realised that they could not break through this line, they also began to dig trenches.
• Because the Germans were the first to start to build trenches they were able (in most cases) to choose the best ground. ...
• Soldiers in front-line trenches suffered from enemy snipers. ... German snipers did not normally work from their own trenches. ... ” The corpses, as well as the food scraps that littered the trenches, attracted rats. One pair of rats can produce 880 offspring in a year and so the trenches were soon swarming with them. ... Others killed themselves rather than carry on in the trenches. ... The letter was not censored:
’We have just come out of the trenches after being in for six days and up to our waists in water. While we were in the trenches one of the Germans came over to our trench for a cigarette and then back again, and he was not fired at.
Approximate Word count = 896
Approximate Pages = 3.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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