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WWI Project Brighton Boys in the trenches detail[Detail from the cover of a juvenile adventure story taking place in the trenches, 1918; source below.]

I’m accumulating some titles for trench warfare in WWI that are all available online.  I was a little surprised to find as many as I did. Here it goes:

WWI Project Books online  mines in trench warfare

There are a number of useful diagrams, including the following (which reminds me in a vague way of Feynman diagrams): 

Sapper barrage trench for miners

Source for the two above images: Use of mines in trench warfare (from the French school of St. Cyr) Translated and edited at the Army war college. July, 1917.  by United States. Army War College, Washington, D.C. Published 1917

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WWI Project Brighton Boys in the trenches

Selections of WWI Trench-related Manuals–Full text:

Trench warfare, by Major Jas. A. Moss, U.S. Army; being a practical manual for the training and instruction of officers and men in trench warfare, based on the latest… by Moss, James A. 1872-1941. Published 1917 http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101042554194;view=thumb;seq=1

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