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Witness the horror of the Battle of Verdun - the deadliest, longest, and most dreadful clash of WWI. Experience the nightmarish landscapes and the colossal toll it took on French and German soldiers.
February 1916. World War I has been raging for two years and has killed over three million people. And yet, neither side has managed to gain the upper hand. The Germans, by mobilizing more ...
Commemorations have been held in northern France to mark 'the pointlessness and savagery' of World War One's longest battle, at Verdun. It claimed 300,000 lives and ended after ten months in a ...
The Battle of Verdun was the longest battle of World War One, lasting 302 days, and an example of a new type of warfare fed by supply chains ...
Verdun was the longest battle of World War One, lasting a total of 300 days. Logistics, politics, pride and strategy all helped to prolong the conflict.
Fought from February into December of 1916, Verdun was the longest battle of the war and one of the costliest in human history. Between them, the Germans and the French suffered more than 700,000 ...
The World War One Historical Association has awarded Paul Jankowski, the Raymond Ginger Professor of History, the 2014 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Book Prize for his book “Verdun: The Longest Battle of ...
Four trees planted in memory of the longest battle in World War One have been traced after a nationwide search. Acorns and seeds gathered from the site of the Battle of Verdun were planted in ...