He planned to use a relatively small number of men to capture the high ground to the north of Verdun and then to inflict enormous casualties on the French using his superior German artillery to ...

Both sides had already incurred millions of casualties, thanks in large part to battles at Verdun and the Somme. The Allied high command needed to break the German lines, so formed a plan to ...

The Battle of Verdun, a massive German onslaught in northeastern France ... 302 days of combat — a shocking average of about ...

The Battle of Verdun might not be the ... the strategy of the German army was aimed at gradually wearing down the French forces through casualties and depleting their resources and morale.

By the time the French finally broke through at Verdun a month later, they had suffered close to 400,000 casualties and the Germans 350,000. The Battle of the Somme revealed the horrific nature of ...

For me, D-Day is a day of personal contemplation and of profound thanks to those who sacrificed that I might live.

In many parts of the battlefield the Germans were pushed back but casualties were very high ... the French had been taking severe losses at Verdun to the east of Paris. The Allied High Command ...

After the disastrous Canadian raid at Dieppe, German soldiers observed: "The dead on the beach -- I've ... It was a latter-day Verdun, the Marine occupation of that ridge, where the artillery ...

Instead, they fell, in dark, unimaginable encounters such as the battle of Verdun, which lasted for nearly ten months in 1916 and took at least 300,000 French and German lives. They fell in ...

Montreal police said they were alerted to the latest incident around 3:30 a.m. by a 911 caller saying someone had broken into the bar near Hickson St. in the borough of Verdun. Officers discovered ...

German soldier Carl von Clemm eventually found himself scavenging for horsemeat: "It looked funny when there was a dead horse -- we ... the French army white" at Verdun in 1916.