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Visit the battlefields of World War I, where soldiers confronted the stark reality of modern industrial warfare

Soldiers in First World War uniform eat in the trenches

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Life in the trenches during WWI: your essential guide

Sisters in arms: women at war during WW1.

British infantry shelter in trenches

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Trench tactics: how was war fought in the WW1 trenches?

Life in the trenches: everything you wanted to know.

A despatch rider during WW1, as featured in new Sam Mendes film '1917'

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The real trench runners of WW1

Indian soldiers during WWI

Indians in the trenches.

Key WW1 battles

Photograph of the Wounded British Soldiers at the Battle of the Somme. Dated 1916. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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8 things you (probably) didn’t know about the battle of the Somme

Stretcher bearers at Passchendaele

The forgotten triumphs of Passchendaele.

General Sir Douglas Haig (left) and Sir Henry Rawlinson are largely to blame for the failure of the battle of the Somme, says historian Hugh Sebag-Montefiore. (Photos by Hulton Archive/Getty Images and Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

The British generals whose infighting lost the battle of the Somme.

Peronne, March 1917

Operation Alberich: the story of Germany’s retreat in 1917.

Grave of a fallen soldier in World War I

“Their name liveth for evermore”: the difficult task of locating, identifying and honouring the dead of WW1.

London crowds celebrating the signing of the armistice at the end of the First World War.

First World War

Armistice Day: what does it commemorate? Why are poppies worn? Plus 4 more things you need to know

A wounded soldier of Company K, 110th Regiment Infantry, receives first-aid treatment from a comrade in Varennes-en-Argonne, France, 26 September 1918. (Photo by Corbis via Getty Images)

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First World War soldiers: life after the Armistice

A French soldier pictured next to wrecked German lorries.

Could WW1 have ended in 1916?.