Expectation vs reality

Cards (5)

E: five days of shelling to kill germans
R: Germans went into reserve trenches and waited
E: shelling would destroy German trenches
R: German trenches built well and not destroyed
E: shelling would destroy barbed wire
r: only made it more tangled and caused british death
e: soilders walk across no man’s land
r: barbed wire hard to cross, German had machine guns
e: victory
r : 600,000 killed and only 1 mile gained