I quite like playing in the mud. But I’d probably feel different if I was a soldier in the trenches during World War One. WW1 SOLDIER JACK: Mud? Oh, we know all about mud here on the Western Front.

In this special episode, the doctors turn back the clock to find out more about what medicine was like in World War One. They look at the little critters that infested the trenches, and set up a ...

This story originally appeared in the August 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine as "The Hidden World of the Great War ... of the trenches above. A journalist visiting one of the caverns ...

Claudius Schulze Remains of a trench today ... opening of a campaign that would be regarded as one of the great Allied failures of World War I. The name quickly became a metaphor for hubris ...