Life in the quarries was vastly preferable to the muddy hell of the trenches above. A journalist visiting one of the caverns in 1915 noted that “a dry shelter, straw, some furniture, a fire ...
Sometimes the shell fire caused trenches to collapse burying men beneath the clay. Soldiers couldn’t peek their heads above the trenches because of the snipers’ bullets. Artillery could be ...
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