Somewhere ahead in the blackness are the lines of German trenches, bombarded day and night by the big guns such as this War "as is"; a field hospital in a deserted dugout just behind the first line. The soldiers are bringing up more wounded A poignant picture of war's devastation-"the curtain of fire" adopted by both armies to clear the way for infantry attack Far behind the lines at Verdun and in the Champagne these thousands of shells are being constantly shaped, filled, packed and shipped. The long German siege of Verdun was continued chiefly in the hope of depleting the French supply of munitions In the wake of the German army-a desolate photograph of what fighting really means along the Somme where the Allied and German armies have struggled for over two years thru interminable stretches of mud broken by shell-holes |