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War zone

noun

A combat zone where military operations are coordinated (especially a designated area in international waters where the rights of neutrals are not respected by nations at war).

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"War zone" Quotes from Famous Books

... might realize the value that early naval assistance would bring to the Allied cause. There is no doubt that great difficulty must be experienced by those far removed from the theatre of war in understanding the conditions in the war zone. This was exemplified at a time when we had organized the trade in convoys and the system was showing itself effective in greatly reducing losses from submarine attack. We were pressing the United States to strengthen our escorting ...

— The Crisis of the Naval War • John Rushworth Jellicoe

... wounded sailors sent home for hospital treatment. Their experiences, such as may be published at this time, now appear in book form. This book brings out many thrilling adventures that have occurred in the war zone of the high seas—and has official sanction. Miss Sterne's descriptive powers are equaled by few. She has the dramatic touch which compels interest. Her book, which contains many photographic scenes, will be warmly welcomed in navy ...

— Chicken Little Jane on the Big John • Lily Munsell Ritchie

... in pursuit of useful social information, insisted: "Well, are they as nice in the war zone as they ...

— The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me • William Allen White

... behalf of sick and wounded sailors sent home for hospital treatment. Their experiences, such as may be published at this time, now appear in book form. This book brings out many thrilling adventures that have occurred in the war zone of the high seas—and has official sanction. Miss Sterne's descriptive powers are equaled by few. She has the dramatic touch which compels interest. Her book, which contains many photographic scenes, will be warmly welcomed in ...

— Chicken Little Jane on the Big John • Lily Munsell Ritchie

... other side of the Channel must have been rather disquieted by the loss of so much shipping at the hands of our boats or of our mines; and they must have realized that a new method of warfare had begun, for their fleet no longer paraded in the North Sea or in any of the waters in the war zone. Their great, valuable ships were withdrawn, and the patrol of their coast was confided only to smaller craft and to the mine-layers, in order that their people might supposedly sleep ...

— The Journal of Submarine Commander von Forstner • Georg-Guenther von Forstner