Art: Dix's War

One soldier, with a bayonet through his stomach, is cocked for a back-somersault; another goes out upside down on barbed wire (Last Position at Neuville).

A cheery sunrise down No Man's Land; two bedraggled troopers sneaking past a break in the parapet on all fours, their mess kit handles between their teeth (Mess Time, Pilkem).

Two medicos wave hopeless arms beside a row of dirty bodies laid out against an embankment (Gassed).

A head and shoulders rise above a trench, the moonshine setting off its black laughing features (Nightly...

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