In the trench stages of WW1, the Western front was supposedly a long line of trenches i between the North Sea and Switzerland. What did the opposite ends look like? How did soldiers fight there? What impracticalities were there from fighting next to the shore/to a neutral country's border?

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jonewer

Hello, so more can be said but you may be interested in this answer

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/hm2k6z/on_maps_of_the_western_front_in_wwi_we_see_that/fx3stzx/

Posted in answer to a previous question by myself u/jonewer

DanKensington

More can always be said on the matter, especially about the practical matters of fighting at the ends. While we wait for newer material, OP, here's some previous posts looking at the same topic:

u/Kochevnik81 has a few details and pictures of the ends;
and u/jonewer has a deeper look at the Swiss side.