The 10th Army's progress was slow and casualties were heavy as Yuhuatai was built like a fortress of interlocking pillboxes and trenches manned by three Chinese divisions, including the German-trained 88th Division, though the Chinese were also apt to counterattack and some Japanese units were forced to spend more time defending than attacking.
And before that, when the first world war made caustic maps of Flanders fields and woods, built no-man's land and fields of mines, of wire, of engraved trenches of men and water, of how when, after it was over, a man called Eliot Howard decided that birds held territories, too.
So those attempting to inveigle the leather trench into men's wardrobes this season face an uphill struggle.
Admired by Pound and described by TS Eliot as the "most extraordinary" of the first world war poets, Rosenberg's best-known poems, "Louse Hunting", "Break of Day in the Trenches", "Dead Man's Dump", are canonical works in this most poetry-rich of conflicts.
Rain Jacket: Though there are no Burberry-looking replacements yet for women, the Modus Trench for men from Nau is runway worthy.
In addition to the aforementioned plissé soleil dress, standout looks included a voluminous khaki-colored cape (hey, even vampires go on safari, right?) for women and a white puffer trench for men.
Two wounded soldiers, one a Bosnian, the other a Serb, are trapped together in a trench (no man's land) between enemy lines.
After he was lifted out of the trench, the man was transported to the hospital for treatment, having likely sustained a broken right leg and left ankle, Hendrickson said.
It is commonly said that leaders such as Harold Macmillan had either fought in the trenches or known men at first hand in their industrial constituencies and so gained a respect for working-class life, which the 21st-century leadership, with its upmarket aura of fine wine and evenings spent manspreading with sofa-sprawled box sets, conspicuously lacks.
Human Rights Watch has analysed satellite images of the area and determined that two of the trenches where the men were apparently killed were located in central Tikrit.
