Trench Warefare

During WWI the Western Front stretched from the North Sea to Swiss Frontier with France. Both sides dug themselves in ending any chance a quick war. This caused a stalemate for most of the time during the war. In the trenches over 200,000 men died, most of who died in battle, but many died from disease and infections brought on by  the unsanitary conditions.
    Trench life was probably worse then  the actual war. When a new soldier entered the frontline all he would notice was the smell. It a mix of stale, dead bodies on the ground, getting eaten by rats. It was the smell of poison gas, dirty mud, overflowing cess pits, and the smell of non-washed bodies roaming the entire area. The new soldier would soon get used to the smell and it would eventually grow on to their own bodies.