Mametz Wood : after the autumn advance, 1916. 'The abomination of desolation'.

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Image: a view across the devastated Mametz Wood, with splintered tree stumps and flooded shell holes. The body of a dead German infantryman lies in the foreground, the legs visible but the torso and head hidden by the water of a flooded shell hole.