battlefield vs front line

battlefield

noun
  • The area where a land battle is or was fought, which is not necessarily a field. 

front line

noun
  • A site of a conflict, effort, or controversial matter of any kind. 

  • A low level. 

  • attack, collectively the attackers or forwards. 

  • A front, or a boundary between opposing positions. 

  • The site of interaction with outsiders, such as customers. 

How often have the words battlefield and front line occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )