Warfare
No man's land
The ground between opposing front lines, swept by fire from both sides. It could be as little as 30 yards wide in some sectors or over a mile in others, and was littered with wire, shell holes and bodies.
Mentioned in
- Chapter III The War of Movement §10 The Christmas Truce and the Cost of 1914
- Chapter IV Deadlock §3 Second Ypres and the First Gas Attack
- Chapter V The Year of Attrition §8 The Somme I: The First Day
- Chapter IX In the Trenches §1 Anatomy of a Trench System§3 No Man's Land: Patrols, Raids and Wiring Parties§5 Going Over the Top§6 Wounds and the Chain of Evacuation
- Chapter X The Machinery of War Overview§3 Poison Gas: The Fear and the Figures