No Mans Land was the area of land between the two opposing armies in their trench's. This hellish stretch of land was heavily guarded by machine guns and rifle men, on both sides. It was riddled with barbed wire and dead or wounded men, and due to the intense bombing that this land endured no foliage or life of any kind, nothing grew or lived here. The only thing left was the craters that the artillery and planes left behind. Wilfred Owen discribed "The No Mans Land" in his poem.
"No Man's Land is pocketmarked like the body of foulest disease and its odour is the breath of cancer...No Man's Land under snow is like the face of the moon, chaotic, crater-ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness."
"Hideous landscapes, vile noises....everything unnatural, broken, blastered; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the dug-outs all day, all night, the most execrable
sights on earth." -
Wilfred Owen
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