... are probably fairly realistic, while the rate of fire, although already shown as strong, is almost certainly underestimated, or underplayed. In areas around the Belgium town of Ypres (Ieper in Flemish) salients created vicious cross-fire by both machine-guns and artillery, (the latter known as "enfilading" = to sweep ... "morass of glue-like mud" seeming sinisterly different from the simplistically ideal situation in source I, while the colour picture of that source (in our books) makes an even more interesting comparison, with no shell-holes, and the only mud being the trenches. The her...

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