An American map titled "Hammond's Large Scale War Map of the Western Front." The map of France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, and the Netherlands shows the location of railways, canals, aircraft depots, principal wireless stations, fortresses, fortified towns, naval …

9. Appendix 1: The usage of maps on the Western Front. About 34 million official British military maps were produced for the Western Front. They were produced at various scales for...

An American map titled "The Literary Digest Liberty Map of the Western Front of the Great World War." The map shows steam railways, highways, mineral roads, tramways, electric railways, rivers, canals, fortified cities, forts, woods, international boundaries, subdivision boundaries, and …

2024年12月26日 · Western Front, major theatre of World War I. The name refers to the western side of territory under the control of Germany, which was also fighting on its eastern flank for most of the conflict. The struggle between the Allied and Central armies at the Western Front largely determined the course of

This section of the website reproduces large-scale maps categorised by battlefront covering the key battles and offensives fought from 1914-18. Specifically, this page contains maps illustrating the course of the war fought on the Western Front. The sidebar to the right lists each map category available within the section.

These World War I maps have been selected and compiled by Alpha History authors. Maps appearing here are in the public domain or appear under creative commons licenses. A collection of World War I maps for use by history teachers and students.

Shows furthest advance of the German Army and the battle line as of July 1, 1917. Also shows railways, canals, aircraft depots, wireless stations, forts, naval arsenals and boundaries.

The Western Front Association, the WFA, have embarked on a project to scan all the Great War maps held at the IWM and to make as many as possible available for a very low cost on disc in a project called Mapping The Front. This project is intended …

Map of the Western Front, 1915–16. Between the coast and the Vosges was a westward bulge in the trench line, named the Noyon salient after the French town at the maximum point of the German advance near Compiègne. Joffre's plan for 1915 was to attack the salient on both flanks to …

The centerpiece of an exhibition now at the Harvard Map Collection is a pieced-together map eight feet high by nine feet wide [the second image above] that shows at a glance the dimensions of the Western Front in World War I. German trenches are depicted in blue, Allied trenches in red, stretching for hundreds of miles. Winston Churchill later ...