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Trench Warfare by 1914-1918: The Live and Let Live System by Tony Ashworth is part of the Pan Grand Strategy Series. The shock and slaughter of the battlefields of the Somme, Verdun and Passchendale is well documented. However, during the smaller battles soldiers could, and often did, make personal decisions not possible during large ones. From these choices, there evolved between enemies a curious culture of live and let live which constrained the war culture of kill or be killed in fundamental ways.