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- around 25,000 miles of trenches along Western Front - three lines: front trench is attack trench, second trench is support trench, and third trench is reserves - German trenches had permanent element – kitchens, furniture, electricity, water - French/British kept offensive plan so did not make their trenches fancy - Included artillery, machine guns, barbed wire, exploding bullets, liquid fire, and poison gas Mass killing - Battle of Verdun (Spring/Summer, 1916) - 700,000 on both sides - Battle of the Somme (Summer/Fall, 1916) - 600,000 French/British casualties - 500,000 German casualties - 57,240 casualties – 20,000 dead – the first day - A few miles of movement only - Trench warfare inspires new genre of literature – poetry, All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque) and Storm of Steel (Jünger)
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