Trench Fighting 1914-1918 (Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century, Weapons Book No. 28)

159 pp. With the onset of winter in 1914 the Western Front finally congealed: the trench war had begun, and was to continue for four years as vast armies faced each other across a wilderness of barbed wire and shell holes. This was the war of attrition in which to gain a few yards of front a generation was sacrificed.