The 10 photographs seen here all bear the same basic place and date information: Verdun, 1916. But that information hardly does justice to the battle they depict. Fighting began at Verdun, named for ...

LONDON, Feb. 24, 1916 (UP) - Under the eyes of the Kaiser, the German crown prince and his army are smashing their way steadily toward the fortress of Verdun, in France. They are less than eight miles ...

PARIS, Dec. 27, 1916 (UP) - During the closing three months of 1916, three events took place in France which demonstrated as never at any previous period of war the apparently inexhaustible resources ...

On February 21, 1916, the opening guns of the great German offensive against Verdun were fired. As it had been preceded by a number of small local attacks at various points along the line, the French ...

Artillery would play a central role in the German battle plan – first by breaking up French fixed and improvised defenses to allow German infantry to advance and seize the strategic high ground above ...

It was one of the ghastly ironies of the First World War that, as the Allies were planning a huge offensive to end the war at the Somme, the Germans were preparing a similar offensive at Verdun – so ...

In February 1916, in the second year of World War I, the German Army launched its attack on the fortress of Verdun. Although forced to yield ground, 59-year-old General Henri Philippe Pétain held ...