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Western Front
     
Western Front

the Western Front

an area in northern France and Belgium where many battles of World War I were fought. The armies of the Allies (=Britain, France etc) and of Germany were based in trenches (=long, deep holes in the ground) and suffered terrible conditions and great loss of life.
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