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 ...

Any parallel between Verdun and Bakhmut is of course imprecise. In 1916 the battlefield lay outside the town, in orchards and woods above Verdun; Bakhmut is an urban battle, fought amid blocks of ...

Ukraine has ossified into something like the modern version of the horrific Battle of Verdun, fought 108 years ago on the 1916 Western Front of World War I. That meat grinder cost France and ...

DECEMBER 18, 1916: The Battle of Verdun – the longest engagement of the First World War – ended on this day in 1916 after ten months of fighting and 976,000 casualties. The Germans, who had ...

Documentary using animated maps recreations and period footage on conflicts around a French stronghold which the Germans briefly captured during the battle of Verdun in WWI between February and ...

France marked the centenary of the Battle of Verdun on Sunday, exactly 100 years on from the first shots fired in World War I’s longest battle, which became a symbol of resistance and suffering.

In extensive ceremonies Sunday in eastern France, Francois Hollande of France and Angela Merkel of Germany are marking 100 years since the 10-month Battle of Verdun, which killed 163,000 French ...