The eastern French city of Verdun is a place of memory which symbolises the terrible human cost of World War I. Hundreds of thousands of French and German soldiers died there during 300 days of bitter ...

The 10-month battle at Verdun — the longest in World War I — killed 163,000 French and 143,000 German soldiers and wounded hundreds of thousands of others. Between February and December 1916 ...

Lasting 303 days, Verdun was one of the most costly battles of the war. Estimates differ on the number of casualties, ranging from 714,000 to around 976,000 between both sides.