Trench Warfare 1914–1918: The Live and Let Live System

12th division 1st Army 2/Royal Welch 2nd Army 33rd division 41st division 48th division 9th division active fronts active trench antagonists artillery attack attrition battalion behaviour Blunden bombs brigade British casualties Christmas truce combat concerned corps defence described diary divisional front Douglas Haig élite units enemy's exchange existed fighting fire firstly fraternisation front line further German German trench gunners guns Haig's high command hostile zone Ibid impersonal inertia infantry infantry officer instance latter let live Lewis guns live and let London machine-gun moral Moreover mortars mutual night no-man's-land non-élite occurred offensive spirit op.cit orders organisation parapet patrol peace quiet fronts raid raiders reciprocal Regiment retaliation rifle ritualised aggression Robert Graves routinised sanctions second phase secondly shells side small arms sniping social Somme specialist tactics targets trench fighters trench war trench warfare trench-mortars troops Vickers violence weapon groups Welch Fusiliers western front wire wrote yards