What was the war like on the Western Front during World War 1?

Answer 1

The western front was a field of trenches where the soldiers would hide and hope they didn't get killed. Every once and a while they would jump out run across "no mans land" and try to attack the enemies on the other side hiding in their own trenches. This would go back and forth between the two sides which created a stalemate in the war. After a few weeks the soldiers would go back to restcamp while a new batch got shipped up to the trenches. Then in a few weeks they would go back again. Basically it was weeks of terrifing experiences to weeks of extreme bordom and this just kept repeating.

Answer 2

Because most of the lowlands were below the water-table (particular Flanders in Belgium) it was often incredibly muddy and waterlogged. It was not uncommon to see gun limbers abandoned on the roadsides where they had slipped and become lodged so deep in the quagmire it was not possible to retrieve them.

During the winter snow fell and coated everything. Often ice formed so thick over shell holes you could jump on it and it wouldn't break.

In the summer there was blazing heat that caused the corpses to rot faster and swell up into bloated black behemoths. Flies multiplied like crazy, and rats as large as small dogs prowled No Mans Land.

There was always the constant stench of excretement, cordite, gunpowder and death hanging over the trenches.

Answer 3

Mud, blood, phosgene gas, mustard gas, and millions of men killed.

Artillery would pound the trenches for days. Men would go insane from the constant battery. If you stuck your head out for even a second, you probably got shot. When the artillery ended, a whistle would be blown, and the enemy would go "over the top." They'd come charging at you, and your men would mow them down by the thousands with machine guns. When the enemy became to few or demoralized to continue, you'd go over and chase them. As you ran after them, the enemy would regroup and mow you down with their machine guns. And you'd run back to your trench with a couple hundred less men but no ground gained. Then you had to sit in the trench, covered in mud, water, and rats. Water would get in the boots, and then the flesh would rot and fall off, a condition called trench foot. Some people went so insane the ran towards the enemy trench just to end it. But the commanders didn't understand, so soon enough you went back over the top. Men take cover in a crater, and it's filled with gas. The gas won't kill them yet, though. They'll just spend a couple weeks coughing up pieces of their lungs until they die.

Answer 4

soldiers left the trenches to storm enemy lines, they faced powerful weapons

Answer 5

It was muddy and wet all the time. people got an illness called trench foot, it was when your feet got so wet that they swelled up! Health and cleanliness was a general problem.