Eastern Front

Eastern Front was a term used during the First and Second World Wars to describe the battle fronts between lands controlled by Germany and land controlled by Russia or the Soviet Union. A contested armed frontier during a war is called a "front". The Eastern Front of World War II was the bloodiest and largest theater of warfare in history.

There is also a Western Front in World War I and World War II.

Read more about Eastern Front:  World War I, World War II

Famous quotes containing the words eastern and/or front:

    “The Eastern steamboat passed us with music and a cheer, as if they were going to a ball, when they might be going to—Davy’s locker.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “my face I don’t mind it,
    Because I’m behind it—
    ‘Tis the folks in the front that I jar.”
    —Anthony Euwer (1877–1955)