The Road to Verdun: World War I’s Most Momentous Battle and the Folly of NationalismBy Ian OusbyDoubleday, 393 pages, $45Writing in 1931, French man of letters Paul Valery pondered the ...

C N Trueman in his book The Battle of Verdun quotes a French soldier’s description of the fighting in a letter home. "Men were squashed. Cut in two or divided from top to bottom.

Verdun: The Longest Battle of the Great War Paul Jankowski. Oxford Univ., $34.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-19-931689-2 ...

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The Battle of Verdun, a massive German onslaught in northeastern France meant to gain a decisive final victory on the Western Front in World War I, began on this day in history, Feb. 21, 1916.

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 ...

France is commemorating the 100th anniversary of The Battle of Verdun, World War One's longest battle. It lasted 300 days and as many as 800,000 troops were killed, wounded or went missing ...