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.

Even worse, the French, complacently believing Verdun to be impregnable ... now serving as Minister of War, pointing to the failure to complete fortifications and the lack of manpower (by ...

Verdun was one of the most savagely fought battles of World War One. The Germans fired two million shells in the opening eight-hour bombardment, and tens of millions were fired over the course of ...

who would long be celebrated as the savior of Verdun (but later disgraced himself as the leader of the Vichy regime which collaborated with the Nazis in the Second World War). Petain, arriving at ...

Among the many causes of that ancient Greek war was an attempt by Athens at a variation of “nation building” within a region controlled by Sparta — an unfortunate side-effect of Athenian democracy… as ...

The battle, fought near Verdun during the final months of the war, was critical in routing the Germans and helped pave the way for the Armistice. The map also includes detailed warnings about what ...

Britain and its Empire lost almost a million men during World War One; most of them died on ... of both sides and view the battles of Ypres, Verdun and the Somme in more detail.

To Ives, Eugene Bullard is emblematic of so many who believed that they needed to be a part of this war. Bullard fights in the Battle of Verdun—an apocalyptic struggle between the French and the ...

In the effort of the German army to approach Verdun from the east fully 500,000 men were sacrificed in trying to capture the heights east of that city. The war became a "War of Positions".