It's one thing to fight war with your comrades together, your friends beside you, to support you and protect you.
It's another thing entirely to crawl out alone into no-man's-land to sketch enemy positions. Private Len Smith did this during WWI, and some of his sketches are being published as an e-book.
Here's a sample, a view of what a soldier might see when using a trench periscope; these were necessary because of snipers; anyone sticking his head over the trench parapet risked death from snipers.
Read the whole article, it's a great read. Private Smith's diary still includes two poppies that he pressed into its pages, still showing their original color after nearly a century.
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