| 单词 | western front |
| 释义 | > as lemmasWestern Front Western Front n. the zone of conflict in western Europe in the First World War (1914–18) and Second World War (1939–45), in which the German army engaged the armies to its west.For most of the First World War the Western Front was located in Belgium and eastern France. During the Second World War, the Western Front shifted considerably over the course of the conflict, most of the fighting on land taking place in France during the German invasion of June 1940, and later in France and western Germany between the successful Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944 and the surrender of Germany in May 1945. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > battlefield > [noun] > front or front line edge1535 front1665 firing line1859 Eastern Front1914 Western Front1914 line1916 second front1941 warfront1950 1914 Kokomo (Indiana) Daily Tribune 28 Aug. 3/3 Passenger traffic..has been suspended for three days to permit the transfer of troops from the western front to reinforce on the eastern front. 1939 War Weekly 3 Nov. 35/1 The incalculable factor on the Western Front is the mind of Hitler. 1998 S. Faulks Charlotte Gray iv. vi. 472 William Gray was not sixty years old, but he had not worn well since his return from the Western Front. < as lemmas |
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