World War 1: Tales of the Trenches

In the year 1901, and in the 13 years that followed, the peoples of Western Europe and the English-speaking Americas were becoming consumers rather than warriors. Then the war came.

In the first months of the war, there was plenty to observe with the Germans overrunning Belgium and advancing on Paris.

January 1916, the second year of the war. As the new year began, the Germans' strategic situation on all fronts had stabilized.