Transcription: 1916, the third year of the war, was one of great battles, but also of impotence and bitter disappointments. Immense armies faced one another in close quarters behind their barbed wire entanglements, stuck in the mud of the trenches from which they defended their positions with tooth and nail. At Verdun, tens of thousands of men had been pinned down for seven months in the vast hell of fire and steel into which the countryside around the fortified city had been transformed. In addition to the constant rattle of machine gun fire, the sharp reports of the snipers who shot at anything that moved, ...
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