Trench Warfare, 1914-1918: The Live and Let Live System

12th division 1st Army 2nd Army 33rd division 3rd Army 41st division 48th division 9th division active fronts active trench antagonists Armentières artillery attack attrition battalion behaviour Blunden bombs brigade British buddy casualties chapter combat concerned corps described diary Douglas Haig élite battalions élite units enemy's exchange existed firstly fraternisation front line further German German trench gunners guns Haig's high command History hostile zone Ibid inertia infantry Infantry Knew infantry officer instance large battles latter let live Lewis guns live and let London machine-gun military moral Moreover mortars mutual no-man's-land non-élite units occurred offensive spirit orders organisation parapet patrol peace quiet fronts raiders raiding reciprocal Regiment Regt retaliation rifle ritualised aggression Robert Graves sanctions second phase secondly shells side sniping social soldiers Somme specialist tactics trench fighters trench system trench warfare trench-mortars troops Vickers violence weapon groups western front wire wrote yards Ypres