Can you share a really disturbing scary World War 1 story?
A very disturbing story was that of the nurses on the front lines. They had to deal with the most gruesome injuries. Amputations were common, and they often had to work with very limited supplies. They saw young men in the prime of their lives reduced to broken, bleeding bodies, and they had to try to keep them alive while being in constant danger themselves from enemy fire.
Yes. There was the case of the no - man's - land. This area between the opposing trenches was filled with the bodies of the dead. Soldiers who ventured into it were often shot at. It was like a haunted landscape, full of the stench of death and decay. It was a place where life was extinguished without mercy.
There were also stories of soldiers going mad from the stress of war. The constant shelling, the death all around them, and the fear of never seeing their families again. Some soldiers would start hallucinating or become catatonic. They were then often left to the mercy of the military medical system which was ill - equipped to deal with mental health issues at that time.
