The WWI Artillery Tactic Used To Cross No Man’s Land

Prepare for the creeping barrage

German 15cm field howitzers during World War I (Public domain)

Many soldiers of the Great War were forced to face madness. There came a point for nearly every man on the front where they would teeter on the edge of insanity, where the prospect of sitting in their respective trench or foxhole for a single second more seemed more than anyone could possibly bear. The stink of rot, the…