2-710-723 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Awaiting the Attack', (1919). Scene from the First World War, 1914-1919: 'This remarkable photograph of an actual attack by the Germans was taken near Ypres [in Belgium], and shows the British trenches manned by the King's Liverpool Regiment, with bayonets fixed ready for the charge.' From "The History of the Great European War: its causes and effects", Vol. V, by W. Stanley Macbean Knight. [Caxton Pulishing Company, Limited, London, 1919]