The Western Front had quickly devolved into static lines of trenches, with thousands of men dying in attacks that might only lead to the gain of a few hundred yards of territory. Barbed wire, artillery and machine guns made frontal advances hugely costly. It was the advent of the first armoured tanks in 1917 which broke the deadlock – the tanks were able to drive through barbed wire and were largely impervious to machine gun fire.

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