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Battle of Verdun 21 February - July 1916

French troops under shellfire during the Battle of Verdun.

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World War I’s Iconic, Ironic Battle

NYT

FEB. 19, 2016

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/
opinion/sunday/world-war-is-iconic-ironic-battle.html

21 February - July 1916

Battle of Verdun

In February 1916,

France and Germany

began one of the most

devastating battles

of the First World War

During 10 months

of fighting at Verdun,

around 800,000 men

were killed, wounded

or were declared missing.

In France, the battle

became synonymous

with the horrors of war

on the Western Front.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03j5jhf - Thu 18 Feb 2016

on Feb. 21, 1916,

1,200 German artillery pieces

began firing on French

positions around Verdun,

the ancient fortress town

on the Meuse River

in eastern France.

It was the middle

of World War I ,

and the fighting

all along the Western Front

that ran between

the Channel and the Alps

had settled

into a static confrontation

of men, planes and guns

— guns, above all.

That day the Germans

dropped a million shells

onto the forts, forests

and ravines around Verdun,

and in the 10 months

that followed,

60 million more

would fall in the area.

By then the French

had stopped the German advance

and even recovered most

of the terrain they had lost,

reduced by then to a lunar landscape

bereft of vegetable or animal life.

And 300,000 men had died.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/
opinion/sunday/world-war-is-iconic-ironic-battle.html

nearly a million men

fell just at Verdun in 1916;

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/travel/100-years-of-gratitude.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/battle_verdun.shtml

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/29/
the-guardian-view-on-the-centenary-of-verdun-lessons-for-us-all

http://www.lemonde.fr/histoire/visuel/2016/05/27/
le-mythe-verdun_4927868_4655323.html

http://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/visuel/2016/05/27/
a-verdun-sous-la-foret-les-plaies_4927879_4500055.html

http://www.lemonde.fr/histoire/visuel/2016/05/27/
verdun-memoire-familiale_4927865_4655323.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03j5jhf
- Thu 18 Feb 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/
opinion/sunday/world-war-is-iconic-ironic-battle.html

http://www.lemonde.fr/histoire/visuel/2016/02/21/
verdun-c-etait-une-boucherie-inouie_4869124_4655323.html

http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2016/02/20/
revivre-la-bataille-de-verdun-au-son-du-canon_4868824_3246.html

http://www.lemonde.fr/televisions-radio/article/2016/02/09/
la-bataille-de-verdun-un-mythe-francais_4861691_1655027.html

http://www.lemonde.fr/televisions-radio/article/2016/02/20/
la-guerre-a-la-tele-revue-et-colorisee_4868920_1655027.html

http://www.lemonde.fr/centenaire-14-18/article/2014/11/12/
un-deuil-ritualise-le-choix-du-soldat-inconnu_4522351_3448834.html

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/09/
first-world-war-verdun-lord-northcliffe

https://www.npr.org/2008/07/09/
92131810/restored-french-trenches-tell

France

Philippe Pétain 1856-1951

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/101118/
apres-ses-propos-sur-petain-les-historiens-jugent-severement-macron

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-radio/l-invite-de-8h30/
les-propos-d-emmanuel-macron-sur-petain-ont-pollue-une-semaine-memorielle-exceptionnelle-
selon-l-historien-nicolas-offenstadt
_3012593.html - 10 November 2018

http://www.europe1.fr/societe/
petain-vainqueur-de-verdun-les-historiens-sont-beaucoup-plus-divises-la-dessus
-3797435 - 10 November 2018

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A global guide to the first world war

- interactive documentary 23 July 2014

Ten historians from 10 countries

give a brief history of the first world war through a global lens.

Using original news reports,

interactive maps and rarely-seen footage,

including extraordinary scenes of troops

crossing Mesopotamia on camels

and Italian soldiers fighting high up in the Alps,

the half-hour film explores the war

and its effects from many different perspectives.

You can watch the documentary

in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Arabic or Hindi

thanks to our partnership with the British Academy.

Warning:

contains images some viewers may find disturbing

http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2014/jul/23/
a-global-guide-to-the-first-world-war-interactive-documentary

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From The Trenches To The Web: British WWI Diaries Digitized

NPR January 23, 2014 3:40 AM

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from-the-trenches-to-the-web-british-wwi-diaries-digitized

http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/first-world-war/

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/
new-more-unseen-photographs-from-the-first-world-war-1984325.html

Exclusive: The unseen photographs

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was discovered recently in France.

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they show British soldiers on their way to the Somme.

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By John Lichfield The Independent Friday, 22 May 2009

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/
exclusive-the-unseen-photographs-that-throw-new-light-on-the-first-world-war-1688443.html

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