World War 1 on the Front Lines

The war that broke out in Europe in 1914 soon became focused on the trenches of the Western Front. Enemies faced one another across a narrow gap. Millions of men died in attacks on enemy positions. The United States joined the war in 1917. U.S. soldiers sailed across the Atlantic to fight in the trenches. They faced terrifying new weapons, terrible living conditions, and relentless enemies.
Life on the Front Lines takes you behind the scenes of some of the major conflicts of the last 150 years. It uses eyewitness accounts, revealing photographs, and detailed text to let you stand in the soldiers’ shoes and experience all parts of their lives in the conflicts.