(See how World War I energized mapmaking at National Geographic.) Photographed in 1917, an endless line of Russian soldiers sit patiently in a trench as they anticipate a German attack. National ...

In the midst of the unrelenting violence of World War I, a cease-fire suddenly swept ... One Irish rifleman ventured out of his trench to test the invitation. After arriving back safely with ...

The trenches systems were on every front of World ... of the war. Both the British and German armies used trench systems which they saw as a temporary measure. If you look at pictures of the ...