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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Thus were the terrible results of gas warfare. When I was stationed in Verdun, France, I went to an American World War I cemetery at Romange. The curator was a World War I veteran vet who survived a ...
Critics of Trump now say that he has betrayed Ukraine by conceding that regaining territory lost in 2014 and the admission of Ukraine to Nato will not happen. But, given that neither of these goals ...