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ANOTHER WINTER, MORE TORMENT FOR THE TROOPS.

Trench Foot and The Devil’s Trap. ‘We’re All Fools. Let’s All Go Home.’ Special to The Great War Project (14-16 December) On the Western Front, according to British war correspondent Philip Gibbs, conditions are appalling. “Our men were never dry,” he writes. “They were wet in their trenches and wet in their dugouts. They slept…