Question

Explain how this source is useful to a historian studying life in the trenches.

'To add to the general discomfort, the trenches were alive with rats. The knowledge was the gigantic trench rats had grown fat through feeding on the dead bodies in No Mans Land made the soldiers hate them more fiercely than almost anything else.' Written in 1976

Answer 1

The source has a lot of detail, which can be very useful to historians who are trying to deeply research a topic. A historian trying to learn more about the trenches would find this very useful.