During the ten-month battle, French and German soldiers lived the same terrible existence through the «Hell of Verdun». Both attackers and counter-attackers were exposed to incessant shelling, hunger, thirst, cold or heat, mud and infestations […]
- 04 -192016
The “hyperbataille” of Verdun, seventeenth episode : gaz warfare
The Germans started their chemical warfare program as early as 1915. It was during the Second Battle of Ypres that during their first chlorine attack on 22 April 1915, the Allies discovered the so-called “vagues […]
- 04 -152016
The “hyperbataille” of Verdun, sixteenth episode : surviving battle injuries
With over 300,000 French soldiers who died in the fighting between August and October 1914, the Great War proved to be a deadly conflict right from the beginning. The increasing number of casualties almost led […]
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