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Western Front
The main theater of the war, in Belgium and France. After the German invasion of August 1914 and the Race to the Sea, both sides dug in along a meandering line of fortified trenches from the North Sea to the Swiss frontier, which changed little except in early 1917 and again in 1918.
Mentioned in
- Chapter III The War of Movement §1 Mobilization: Trains, Horses and Millions§8 The Aisne, the Race to the Sea and First Ypres§10 The Christmas Truce and the Cost of 1914
- Chapter IV Deadlock §2 The Western Front: From Neuve Chapelle to Loos§6 The Eastern Front: Gorlice-Tarnów and the Great Retreat§10 The Lusitania, Zeppelins and the War in the Air
- Chapter V The Year of Attrition §2 Verdun I: Falkenhayn's Mill§3 Verdun II: The Sacred Way and the Long Grind§7 Brusilov's Storm, and Italy's Mountains§9 The Somme II: From Bazentin to the Ancre
- Chapter VI The Year of Revolutions Overview§7 Caporetto: The Italian Disaster
- Chapter VII The Last Gamble §2 Brest-Litovsk: Peace in the East§3 Operation Michael: The Kaiser's Battle
- Chapter VIII The Reckoning and the Remaking §5 Red and White: Russia's Civil War and the Battle for Warsaw§10 Remembering the Dead, and the Road to 1939
- Chapter IX In the Trenches Overview§4 The Other Enemies: Rats, Lice, Mud and Cold§10 Other Fronts, Other Trenches
- Chapter X The Machinery of War §3 Poison Gas: The Fear and the Figures§5 Mining and Tunnelling: The War Beneath
- Chapter XI War on Waves and Wings §8 The Birth of Air Power: Scouts, Fighters and Aces§9 Zeppelins, Gothas and the Birth of the RAF
- Chapter XII The Home Fronts §8 Civilians Under Fire§9 Culture, Art and the Making of Memory