Trenches became valuable to WW1 armies because they were a defensive solution to modern weaponry. Before the war, many people thought ... with pests such as rats. They were attracted by the ...

(See how World War ... from the trenches.” They kept an even temperature year-round, but as one French soldier wrote home, “vermin devour us, and it’s teeming with lice, fleas, rats and ...

The full scale replica of an Ypres trench has been created in Maidstone A replica World War One trench has been ... The food wasn't great - there'd be rats, you'd have friends dying, the weather ...