Warfare
Dugout
A shelter dug into the ground. Dugouts were used extensively on the Western Front as protection from shelling, and they were an important part of trench warfare, since they gave men a place to rest and to eat.
Mentioned in
- Chapter IV Deadlock §1 Why the Trenches? Firepower and the Shell Crisis
- Chapter V The Year of Attrition §2 Verdun I: Falkenhayn's Mill§8 The Somme I: The First Day
- Chapter VII The Last Gamble §7 The Hundred Days: Breaking the Hindenburg Line
- Chapter IX In the Trenches §1 Anatomy of a Trench System§2 A Day in the Line: Stand-To, Rum and Relief§3 No Man's Land: Patrols, Raids and Wiring Parties§4 The Other Enemies: Rats, Lice, Mud and Cold§5 Going Over the Top§6 Wounds and the Chain of Evacuation
- Chapter X The Machinery of War §9 Flames, Grenades, Mortars and Clubs