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The Battle of Verdun Begins One Hundred Years Ago Today, 21 February 1916

(URR here.) Among the senseless savagery of the Western Front, Verdun remains the marker by which the bloodletting of the Great War is measured.  When the archives are back up, I shall re-post the piece from 2014.  

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(URR here.) Among the senseless savagery of the Western Front, Verdun remains the marker by which the bloodletting of the Great War is measured.  When the archives are back up, I shall re-post the piece from 2014.  

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  1. Esli

    Verdun is probably the most intense battlefield I have walked on. The scale of artillery use as indicated by extant chartering, and the magnitude of the casualty count as shown in the ossuary alone is staggering.

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  2. Esli

    Cratering, not chartering.

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