Western Front (World War I)

1914–1918 · 20th century · Part of the First World War

The Western Front was the main theatre of the First World War in western Europe, a line of trenches running about 700 kilometres from the Belgian coast to the Swiss border after the German advance was halted at the Marne in 1914. Battles such as Verdun, the Somme and Passchendaele cost millions of casualties, until Allied offensives in 1918 forced Germany to seek an armistice.

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