Trenches For The Win

The main type of fighting used during World War I was trench warfare. The soldiers of the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente began to dig long, deep holes in the ground called trenches, where soldiers fought to guard themselves from enemy fire, in October of 1914. Trenches soon stretched hundreds of miles throughout northern Europe, protected by barbed wire and buried land mines. Laid out in a zig-zag pattern so enemy fire could not sweep along the whole length of the trenches and destroy them, the trenches were only about 2 metres deep, with dirt walls reinforced by sandbags. Between the trenches of the opposing forces was flat land called "no man's land", where soldier could easily be picked off by enemy machine guns in their attempts to clear out enemy trenches.