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  1. No man's land is waste or unowned land or an uninhabited or desolate area that may be under dispute between parties who leave it unoccupied out of fear or uncertainty. The term was originally used to define a contested territory or a dumping ground for refuse between fiefdoms.

  2. 1. a. : an area of unowned, unclaimed, or uninhabited land. b. : an unoccupied area between opposing armies. c. : an area not suitable or used for occupation or habitation. downtown was a retailing no-man's-land. 2. : an anomalous, ambiguous, or indefinite area especially of operation, application, or jurisdiction.

  3. Sep 13, 2018 · No-mans-land might be defined as the disputed space between Allied and German trenches–from the coast at one end to Switzerland 470 miles away at the other–which became the princi­pal killing field of a notoriously cruel and inhuman war.

  4. Sep 8, 2014 · September 8, 2014. No Man's Land could be the most terrifying of places. "Men drowning in shell-holes already filled with decaying flesh," wrote one scholar. No Man's Land by Lucien...

  5. Concept, Practices and Policies. "No Man's Land" was a popular term during the First World War to describe the area between opposing armies and trench lines. How it came to exist and how far it might extend was influenced by a variety of military and topographic factors.

  6. A century after the First World War, No Man's Land continues to conjure an image of the turbulent wasteland of the Western Front - a landscape of metal, bodies and mud. But No Man's...

  7. Jan 22, 2021 · Christy Lemire January 22, 2021. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. In telling a story of violence along the Texas-Mexico border from a different perspective, “No Mans Land” clearly has the best of intentions.

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