After a few months of fluid fighting the war descended into four years of stalemate, mud, disease and death
Belgian soldiers try to keep warm in the trenches on the Western FrontFrench troops wearing an early form of gas mask in the trenches during the second battle of YpresBritish and German troops make a Christmas truce in the trenches of the Western FrontBritish soldiers relaxing and having wounds treated in an underground forward dressing station by the Menin RoadRed Cross workers in a trench tend to a wounded US soldier on a stretcher
An image showing a post box in the third line of the trench where post was collected and delivered dailyThree German soldiers display rats killed in their trench the previous nightA soldier gets a shave in a Serbian trenchFrench officers dining in style near the front lineBritish soldiers sitting around a lamp in their trenchBritish Prime Minister David Lloyd George acknowledges cheers from British troops as he emerges from a captured German dug-out at Fricourt
