Trench Warfare

Trench infantry, gas-masked troopers, machine gun teams, officers with whistles, sappers, and over-the-top assault waves from sculptors who lean into the atmosphere — heavy coats, sandbags, barbed wire, and poses caught somewhere between courage and resignation. Squads to crew a trench network, weapons teams to make no man's land lethal, and the kind of grimy, characterful infantry that turns a battlefield into a story about how bad it got.