No man's land
No man's land is land that is not part of any country. It may be unclaimed territory, or an area that is under dispute and not occupied because of fear or uncertainty.
During war (especially World War I), it is a term used for the area of land between two enemy trenches. Usually nobody was alive there. It was full of shell holes, dead bodies, and barbed wire, and raked by machine gun fire. Attacks were made across no man's land but few attacking soldiers survived.
No Man's Land Media
- Aerial view Loos-Hulluch trench system July 1917.jpg
An aerial photograph showing opposing trenches and no man's land between Loos and Hulluch during World War I
- No-man's-land-flanders-field.jpg
A stretch of no man's land at Flanders Fields, Belgium, 1919
- 111-SC-111 - Canadian Troops on Somme Battlefield - NARA - 55161651 (cropped) (cropped).jpg
Dead Canadian soldiers lying in no man's land on the Somme battlefield, 1918
- JerusalemNoMansLand-v.jpg
No man's land in Jerusalem, between Israel and Jordan. The photo (taken approx. 1964) depicts the Old City wall,
- Battle of Bakhmut 1.jpg
No man's land on the outskirts of Bakhmut
