No man's land
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No man's land is wasted, unowned land, an uninhabited or desolate area that may be under dispute between parties who leave it unoccupied out of fear or uncertainty. The term was originally used to def
An aerial photograph showing opposing trenches and no man's land between Loos and Hulluch in France during World War I
A stretch of no man's land at Flanders Fields, Belgium, 1919
Dead Canadian soldiers lying in no man's land on the Somme battlefield in France, 1918
No man's land in Jerusalem, between Israel and Jordan, circa 1964
Trench warfare
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Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied lines largely comprising military trenches, in which combatants are well-protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially shelte
No man's land
…territory or a dumping ground for refuse between fiefdoms. It is commonly associated with World War I to describe the area of land between two enemy trench systems, not controlled by either side. The term is also used metaphorically, to refer to an ambiguous, anomalous, or indefinite area, regarding an application…
Frontline trenches, 1916; British (upper) and German (lower)
German soldiers of the 11th Reserve Hussar Regiment fighting from a trench, on the Western Front, 1916
Trenches at the Siege of Vicksburg 1863
German forward detachments guarding the entrance to a trench line in front of Arras in 1915