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"Novelist William Boyd's first film as director, THE TRENCH is a slow-burning, emotionally powerful account of the two-day buildup to the Battle of the Somme in 1916, the bloodiest massacre in British Army history. A bitter farewell to the innocence of a group of idealistic young men, the film soberly and intelligently examines the fear, frustration, anxiety, animosity and boredom of waiting to advance into the terrifying other world that lies over the lip of the trenches." - David Rooney, Variety.

Boyd's characters are a textured and engaging crowd. Among them Daniel Craig (Francis Bacon's lover in LOVE IS THE DEVIL) stars as a hard-bitten sergeant coping with naïve volunteers who've never seen action and a commanding officer who'd rather be reading Tennyson than preparing for war.

• The Internet Movie Database THE TRENCH Page
• World War I Trenches on the Web affiliated with The History Channel
• The Great War Association
• The Great War Website

• The First Day on the Somme 1 July 1916 by Martin Middlebrook
• Eye-Deep in Hell: Trench Warfare in World War I by John Ellis
• Stalemate!: Great Trench Warfare Battles (Cassell Military Class) by J. H. Johnson
• Battle of the Somme by Gerald Gliddon, Gerald Glidden
• 1915: The Death of Innocence by Lyn MacDonald, Robert Cowley
• The Battles of the Somme, 1916 by Fred R. Van Hartesveldt (Compiler)
• British Battalions on the Somme, 1916 by Ray Westlake
• Legacy of the Somme 1916 : The Battle in Fact, Film and Fiction
  by Gerald Gliddon, John Terraine

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