
Digging the Trenches:
The Archaeology of the Western Front.
Раскопки траншей/Археология Западного фронта.
Andrew Robertshaw, David Kenyon
2008
Modern research methods - archaeological, historical, forensic - have transformed our view of the past. This is especially true of the history
of the Great War. In this, the first comprehensive survey of this exciting new field, Andrew Robertshaw and David Kenyon introduce the reader
to the techniques that are employed and record, in vivid detail, many of the remarkable projects that have been undertaken. They show how
archaeology can be used to reveal the position of trenches, dugouts and other battlefield features and to rediscover what life on the Western
Front was really like. And they show how individual soldiers are themselves part of the story, for forensic investigation of the war dead is now
so highly developed that individuals can be identified and their fate discovered.
