Why were fighting and living conditions so awful for British soldiers in World War One

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Why were fighting and living conditions so awful for British soldiers in World War One

World War One "The great war" was one of the most horrific and costly wars of modern history. Most of World War One was fought in trenches, which would run for miles along the borders of Belgium and France. Trenches were long ditches dug into the ground that served not only as living quarters but all the fighting took place in the trenches as well, well at least for the Germans it did. The German trenches were well built because they were more geared to defending and they expected to stay there a long time. The Germans were more geared to defending because they had already taken allot of land and if they just stayed put they wouldn't of lost anything. The British trenches on the other hand were more geared to attacking and weren't very well built because they were built in a rush and weren't supplied very well because they all thought it would be a short war. Britain's job was to reclaim the land the Germans held, so they had to attack because if all they did was defend they would