Second Battle of the Aisne
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The Second Battle of the Aisne was the main part of the Nivelle Offensive, a Franco-British attempt to inflict a decisive defeat on the German armies in France. The Entente strategy was to conduct off
Chemin des Dames and Champagne, 1917
Chavonne defences, 1917
Illustration of the German retirement to the Siegfriedstellung/Hindenburg Line, 1917
Western Front, April 1917
Western Front (World War I)
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The Western Front was one of the main theatres of war during World War I. Following the outbreak of war in August 1914, the German Army opened the Western Front by invading Luxembourg and Belgium, the
Clockwise from top left: Men of the Royal Irish Rifles, concentrated in the trench, right before going over the top on the First day on the Somme; British soldier carries a wounded comrade from the battlefield on the first day of the Somme; A young German soldier during the Battle of Ginchy; American infantry storming a German bunker; A German Gotha G.IV heavy bomber; American troops with Renault FT tanks moving in the Argonne Forest to the front line during the
A 1913 French bayonet charge
The German infantry on the battlefield on 7 August 1914
A German trench on the Western Front in 1915