Why Did Ww1 Occur In The Trenches

WWI was the changing point how all wars are fought today. WWI was supposed to end all future wars but, unfortunately it was only the start of many more to come. WWI, set itself apart from other wars mostly in the way of trench warfare, and the use of poisonous gas. The trenches in which the soldiers were in was so grotesque, and filled with diseases that it was almost a death sentence to stay in them. In this war, a simple cut or scrape could be as fatal as getting shot, because of all the diseases going around in the trenches from the bacteria in the trenches. The conditions in which Jean Dartemont and the millions of other soldiers that fought in WWI, depicted by Gabriel Chevallier’s novel Fear: A Novel of World War I was filled with so much terror
These diseases included trench fever, dysentery, and many more from all of the rats, lice, and pests that made their homes in the trenches. In the beginning of the book, Jean talked about the trenches and said, “Our huts were so infested with lice that I would often go sleep in a field… the stomach upsets wore me out and for a long time gave me no peace at all. In a situation where everything depends on your body, a discomfort like this became something serious” (32). Trench foot was also a very serious problem the soldiers had to deal with. Trench foot can be described as the rotting and deteriorating of feet because the feet were exposed to cold, wet climate for too long. Eventually, with no treatment in the battlefield, this led to the amputation of the limbs effected. The way soldiers tried to prevent this disease was to wear multiple pairs of dry socks so their feet didn’t stay wet and would be more protected from the elements. When Jean was in the hospital recovering from his wounds, he encountered a young soldier. The young soldiers’ body was so infected from the poor living conditions of the trenches that he had his arm and leg