Training for the Trenches / A Practical Handbook Based upon Personal Experience During the First Two Years of the War in France

A practical manual drawing on frontline experience, offering guidance for civilians becoming soldiers and for instructors. It treats physical and mental adjustment to military life, hygiene, disease prevention, vermin control, trench construction and revetting, shelter and drainage, protective measures against artillery, gas and flame, and tactics for attack and defense. Chapters cover equipment, machine-gun and mortar use, entanglements, periscopes, gas masks, and field improvisations, and include diagrams and illustrations demonstrating layouts, dugouts, firing steps, and simple devices. Tips emphasize discipline, fieldcraft, and survival techniques tailored to trench conditions.