Which of the following describes the experience of most soldiers fighting in France during the Great War?
A) They had to be very mobile because the battlefront changed radically from week to week, transitioning back and forth between the Western Front and Eastern Front.
B) They fought a war of attrition often in miserable conditions, suffering massive artillery attacks and then facing enemy fire to seize well-protected trenches.
C) They fought small-scale battles that afforded them chances to display individual bravery and courage and used weapons that had been available for centuries in new ways.
D) They fought much as their great-grandfathers had during the nineteenth century: in tightly packed formations, shooting volleys into the ranks of the enemy.
E) They fought a guerilla war because after Germany invaded and captured Paris, French resistance fighters formed partisan bands that harassed their occupiers.
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