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 ...

Soar over Verdun, France, a city deeply scarred by history and home to one of the infamous Zone Rouges—areas still uninhabitable due to the devastation of World War I.

For the French, Verdun becomes a symbol of the sacrifice ... The Battle of the Somme is one of the largest and bloodiest conflicts of World War One. Nearly 20,000 British soldiers die on the ...

including casualties and thus the direction/status of the war. The French extrapolated German casualties from their own and claimed the enemy was being bled white while the reverse was closer to the ...