Peace

Spending multiple weeks inside a strip of dug earth was the fate of many soldiers during the first world war. Their only companions in the trenches were often fellow soldiers and giant rats roaming nearby. The air they breathed was filled with the stench of rotting corpses, body odour and gun residue and the most common sounds that they heard were loud blasts of gunshots and screams of horror at incoming enemy fire. They spent most of their time wondering when the absolute terror of a gun battle would fall upon them or if a shell would bury them alive.