1.   But their romantic illusions died in the muddy trenches of the Somme.

2.   Ralph Landis knows war, from the chaos and rage of men charging with fixed bayonets to surviving boredom in a muddy trench.

3.   Their beds were caves, muddy trenches and deserted barns.

4.   Today, the amateur historians study every detail along the muddy trenches of the Mannerheim line.