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
Nivelle offensive
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The Nivelle offensive was a Franco-British operation on the Western Front in the First World War that led to mutinies in the French Army. The offensive was named after General Robert Nivelle, the comm
The Western Front, 1917
French infantry advance on the Chemin des Dames.
St.Chamond tank
A French Saint-Chamond tank ("Teddy") with a 75 mm field gun, Condé-sur-Aisne, 3 May 1917