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The familiar pictures the First World War show soldiers in their trenches: hellish images of mud. But there are other dimensions not depicyed by these frightening representations of battle: the mundane, everyday routine, the clothing, food, and the fact that much of a soldier's life was spent away from the Front. This book explores the life of the average British Tommy of the Great War, in battle, and at rest, in training, and on the return home. Illustrated with evocative images of the war, and items of the soldier's kit, it provides answers to the questions: what was it like to be a soldier in the trenches of the frontline? wWhat did our ancestors experience? And what was the day-to-day reality of this most horrifying of all wars?