Trenches—long, deep ditches dug as protective defenses—are most often associated with World War I, and the results of trench warfare in that conflict were hellish indeed.
Many soldiers living in the trenches suffered from Trench Foot. Rain and bad weather would flood the trenches making them boggy, muddy, and could even block weapons and make it hard to move in battle. Sustained exposure to the wet, muddy conditions could cause Trench Foot, which sometimes wou...
during the war, plagues and diseases were common. Soldiers could get trench foot, trench fever and a host of physically debilitating conditions that made adjustment back home even harder. These horrific experiences of war meant that many soldiers suffered complete mental breakdowns and this must have...
In 1953 the Soviet Union was a serious threat. The Western Allies with great difficulty, had forced Stalin to withdraw his troops from Iran after the end of the Second World War. Washington now accepted the inaccurate British assumption that Mossadeq's campaign to nationalise Iran's oil was i...
Parenting, for Ben and me, has been experienced in phases—peaks and valleys… I look back on this photo of the boys and me, taken several years ago, and I’m reminded of the deep deep trench we were in at this time. You wouldn’t know that from looking at this photo. Pictures ...