We all know the stories of the horror of trench warfare in the First World War ... and nests of barbed wire strewn across no-man’s land. Artillery shells exploding all around them as they ...

Britain and its Empire lost almost a million men during World War One; most of them died ... the line of trenches, dug-outs and barbed-wire fences moved very little between 1914-1918, despite ...

Military historian and World War One enthusiast Brian Kenny is so dedicated to the cause that he single-handedly dug a trench in his ... with wooden posts, barbed wire, makeshift crosses, and ...

They were designed to destroy the trenches, tear through barbed wire defences ... northern France, during World War One. Around 75,000 British soldiers suffered from the condition during WW1.