LibGuides: World War I: Significant Places

Location of the 1914-1918 Battlefields of the Western Front

Western Front 1914-1918: Australian Remembrance trail in France and Belgium
Fromelles and Pozieres: A look back at two of Australia's bloodiest WWI offensives
An article written by Steve Viney, ABC News, 19 July 2016.
Video: Battle of Fromelle explained
ABC News
Battle of the Somme
'The Somme at 100: A century on from the most grievous of battles, take a look at how some try to make sense of it all' by Adam Connors, ABC News.
The World War: New attack of the Allies
From Trove's digitized newspaper collection, Melbourne newspaper 'The Leader' published August 17, 1918.

The Eastern Front

The map below shows the geographical location of the Eastern front stretching from Riga in the north to Czernowitz in the south. The orange line shows the position of the Eastern Front in 1915. Each coloured square represents 50,000 men. Red represents the Russian army, yellow, German soldiers and blue Austro-Hungarian.

The Eastern Front
Until recently, the eastern theater of the First World War was what Winston Churchill called “the Unknown War.” It was not overlooked, as other fronts were, but unknown; while people knew of some battles (Tannenberg), the assumption was that the Eastern Front was simply a mirror of the Western Front. Instead of trench warfare and stalemate, however, the Eastern Front was the war everyone expected: it featured mass armies making sweeping movements, breakthroughs leading to tremendous advances, and innovation in both tactics and technology. Yet while the conflict proved decisive for both Russia and Austria-Hungary, the ultimate decision came elsewhere.
The forgotten battles on the Eastern Front
Fighting on the lengthy Eastern Front saw colossal clashes between the Central Powers, putting Russia's poor infrastructure under catastrophic strain. An article written by Tim Butcher for 'The Telegraph' UK 3 Jan 2014.