How would you characterize the Western Front?

Answer 1

The best comparison I've heard of has been "a moonscape". Trenches were cut into what was once farmland and tracked all the way from the Swiss border up to the Belgian coast. There were forts around Verdun. So many tonnes of shells (millions and millions of them) had fallen that the water-table was destroyed and there was mud everywhere in many places especially at Passchendaele and around Ypres. Barbed wire curled around the parapets and dead bodies and rats littered No Mans Land. Behind the lines were towns that had been destroyed or partially destroyed by shellfire. Everywhere there were soldiers moving around repairing roads. There were lots of horses towing artillery guns and mules carrying ammunition, their carcasses littered the roadsides where shrapnel hit and killed them. In short, an utter Hell-hole.

Answer 2

the fighting was horrible shooting all the time thousands were killed in one day ! things to do; write this (: tb+eb (:* Imagine thinking you were marching off together with thousands of young men around you, convinced of your nation's cause and certain of victory, and feeling the resounding support of your people cheering you on. Soon, you are at the front, and once the chance for open field manuevers came to an end, trench warfare began, and millions of men faced each other off across a moonscape created by new, modern weapons. Trenches filled with water, body parts, feces, rats, and the mud was layered with it. Hundreds of thousands of each nation's strongest were slaughtered each month, and the Generals had only their old beliefs about war to direct it. Soldiers began to mutiny on both sides, and sometimes when high command officers rode by their soldiers, they were greeted by the sound of thousands of their own soldiers bleating like sheep (for the slaughter).

Answer 3

The western Front was always loud from constant attacks in some parts and in others solders described as peaceful and they could even hop over there trench and go and talk to the enemy (German Forces), another day it could be loud as a attack would be ordered.

The Health and Hygiene was bad though there would be shrapnel and wet mud all over the place. Rats would often live in the Trenches to spreading maajor dieses.

Answer 4

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