In 1915 the Germans connected this vast warren to their frontline trenches. They installed electric lights and telephones, command posts, a bakery and butcher’s, a machine shop, a hospital ...

Though they also saw action in: Gallipoli (modern day Turkey) Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) Africa If you were a soldier on the front line, you would most likely be operating out of a trench.

Half of his time in the city was in a front-line trench where he monitored the movements of Russian soldiers who were several kilometers away. He and his fellow soldiers took turns napping in ...