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 ...

Passchendaele, Somme, Arras, Cambrai, Verdun, Dardanelles, Ypres and Jutland. There were not only the names of World War One battles, but also the names given to babies, usually in commemoration ...

The 101st day of Verdun ... war By HENRY WOOD, United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, July 1, 1916 (UP) - Within two years, despite the handicap of maintaining her own unequal end in the ...

A woman inherits a map of a World War I battlefield ... by the French or British armies. The battle, fought near Verdun during the final months of the war, was critical in routing the Germans ...

A detailed account of one of the bloodiest battles of World War I. Between February and December ... the devastated camps around the village of Verdun.