Amazing shot : French soldiers attacking German positions. This picture wasn’t staged and makes soldiers look blurry like ghosts emerging from the smoke.

Amazing shot : French soldiers attacking German positions. This picture wasn’t staged and makes soldiers look blurry like ghosts emerging from the smoke.

Giant shell hole. Saint julien, Flanders.

Giant shell hole. Saint julien, Flanders.

German trench after heavy shelling at Perthe les Hurlus.

German trench after heavy shelling at Perthe les Hurlus.

German soldiers making Kameraden. Fay en Haye, september 1916.

German soldiers making Kameraden. Fay en Haye, september 1916.

A poilu is staying alert at the Bois-le-Prêtre. August 1916.

A poilu is staying alert at the Bois-le-Prêtre. August 1916.

A post called “L’éperon des arabes”, probably because colonial troops from Maghreb occupied it in the first place.

A post called “L’éperon des arabes”, probably because colonial troops from Maghreb occupied it in the first place.

A chasseur reading a magazine. July 1916.

A chasseur reading a magazine. July 1916.

A first line trench in the Marne region. Keeping watch at night in the dark, ten meters from your pals must be a pretty scary experience.

A first line trench in the Marne region. Keeping watch at night in the dark, ten meters from your pals must be a pretty scary experience.

Lice hunting.

Lice hunting.

A great picture: telephone post in a muddy 1st line trench. Bois le Prêtre, August 1916.

A great picture: telephone post in a muddy 1st line trench. Bois le Prêtre, August 1916.