VERDUN, BATTLE OF

the longest and one of the bloodiest engagements of World War I. Two million men were engaged. It began on Feb. 21, 1916, when the Germans, commanded by Crown Prince Frederick William, launched a massive offensive against Verdun, an awkward salient in the French line. The outlying forts of Douaumont and Hardaumont soon fell, but the French rallied under General Pétain (with the cry "They shall not pass") and resistance stiffened. A British offensive on the Somme relieved the pressure on Verdun in July, 1916, and by December the French had recovered most of the ground lost. The intention of the Germans had been a battle of attrition in which they hoped to bleed the French army white. In the end, they sustained almost as many casualties as the French; an estimated 328,000 to the French 348,000.

See studies by A. Horne (1962), W. Hermanns (1972), and I. Ousby (2002).

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Is Tomorrow Hitler's? 200 Questions on the Battle of Mankind
Book by H. R. Knickerbocker; Reynal & Hitchcock, 1941
Subjects: Europe--Politics And Government--1918-1945, World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945--United States
...HITLERS? 200 Questions On the Battle of Mankind Reynal Hitchcock...they collapsed, and then saw the battle of Britain at its fiercest climax...eventually end. So was the First Battle of Britain, but the final outcome of...
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Guderian's XIXth Panzer Corps and the Battle of France: Breakthrough in the Ardennes, May 1940
Book by Florian K. Rothbrust; Praeger Publishers, 1990
Subjects: Germany--Heer--Panzer-Korps, Xix--History, Guderian, Heinz--1888-1954, World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Ardennes, World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France, World War, 1939-1945--Tank Warfare
...Guderians XIXth Panzer Corps AND The Battle of France Guderians XlXth Panzer Corps AND The Battle of France Breakthrough in the Ardennes...Guderians XIXth Panzer Corps and the Battle of France: breakthrough in the Ardennes...
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Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Divisions
Book; U.S. Government Printing Office, 1931
...area of the Fr Second Army near Sommedieue, southeast of Verdun-sur-Meuse. Mar 17-30, Div participates with the French...Brig relieve elements of the 33d Div in the front line of the Verdun-Fromereville Sector, but are under the command of the...
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The Battle of France, 1940
Book by Adolphe Goutard, A. R. P. Burgess; Ives Washburn, 1959
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front
...mobilised for nothing, the battle-worthiness of our troops would increase...Marne, the Yser, and Verdun. Frenchmen of 1940...France: At any moment a battle may start on which the fate of our country will once...Remember the Marne and Verdun!" The whole of the...
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No Bended Knee: The Battle for Guadalcanal : the Memoir of Gen. Merrill B. Twining USMC (Ret.)
Book by Neil Carey, Merrill B. Twining; Presidio Press, 1996
Subjects: Generals--United States--Biography, Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands), Battle Of, 1942-1943--Personal Narratives, American, Twining, Merrill B, United States--Marine Corps--Biography, United States--Marine Corps--Division, 1st--History
...Guadalcanal Island Solomon Islands , Battle of, 1942-1943. 3. World War, 1939...responsive actions in the forward area of battle. This is the purpose of the military...Guadalcanal Campaign was the decisive battle of the Pacific war, won by the effective...
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The Battle of the Marne: Myths and Reality of Germany's "Fateful Battle" (1)
Journal article by Annika Mombauer; The Historian, Vol. 68, 2006
Subjects: Battles--Myths and legends
...casualties or territorial losses (the Battles of Langemarck, Verdun, and the Somme must surely rank...achieved successful attack southwest of Verdun on 10 September. Extraordinary marches and the almost daily battles...
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World War I Battles and Strategy
Journal article by Daniel Todman; Canadian Journal of History, Vol. 42, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916 (Book)--Book reviews, Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War (Book)--Book reviews, The Battle of the Somme: The Heroism and Horror of War (Book)--Book reviews, The Somme (Book)--Book reviews
...the Path to Verdun: Erich von...Development of Attrition...cloth). The Battle of the Somme...methodical battle and cautious...and love of France, this...Only at Verdun does Doughty...intellectual genesis of Verdun, Foley is...reasons for the battles failure...
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German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich Von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916
Journal article by Neil M. Heyman; The Historian, Vol. 68, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich Von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916 (Book)--Book reviews
...Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916. By...of the German army at the Battle of the Marne in September...intelligently about the Battle of Verdun itself, but only after devoting...
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The Western Front: Battle Ground and Home Front in the First World War
Journal article by Douglas Newton; The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 51, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Western Front: Battle Ground and Home Front in the First World War (Book)--Book reviews
...similarities in innovations adopted to mobilise both popular opinion and money. In the aftermath of the two great battles of 1916, at Verdun and the Somme, the shift to more authoritarian and interventionist politics is examined. Tooley focuses on Germany...
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Eisenhower as Ground-forces Commander: the British Viewpoint
Journal article by G. E. Patrick Murray; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 97, 2007
...lines. Brookes estimation of the Battle of the Bulge, however, more closely...the supreme commander. Calling the Battle of the Bulge "possibly one of the most...his address he paid tribute to the Battle of Britain, fought two years before...
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A Terrible Battle
Magazine article by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.; The American Spectator, Vol. 39, September 2006
Subjects: American history, European history, World War I
...brutal struggle against the Germans at Verdun and they prevailed on the British to mount...between the artillery assault and the rush of the British infantry from their trenches...was slaughter. On the first day of the battle 19,240 British soldiers lost their lives...
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The Schlieffen Plan-Fantasy or Catastrophe? Terence Zuber Argues That the German Army's Rigid Plan for a Quick Victory in France in 1914 Was a Postwar Fabrication
Magazine article by Terence Zuber; History Today, Vol. 52, September 2002
Subjects: Campaign management--Analysis, France--Military aspects, Germany--Military aspects, World War, 1914-1918--Analysis
...officer at the battle of the Marne)--all...the north of Verdun. The first was...assembled. North of Verdun, however, there...fight a decisive battle wherever the...were certain of British and Belgian...between Belfort and Verdun while attacking...
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Ireland at the Somme: John Horne Asks Why the Heroic Efforts of the Two Irish Divisions, the 16th (Irish) and the 36th (Ulster), in the Bloody Events on the Western Front in 1916, Have Been Viewed So Differently Both at the Time and Since
Magazine article by John Horne; History Today, Vol. 57, April 2007
Subjects: British history--Analysis, Irish War of Independence, 1919-1921--History, Irish history--Analysis
...Somme offensive. The German onslaught on the French at Verdun in the first part of 1916 made the Somme all the more urgent but also ensured...history--and of these 20,000 were fatal. However, the battle lasted until mid-November with partial successes and...
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The Somme Battlefield: Peter Furtado Introduces One of the Most Traumatic Places in British Military History
Magazine article by Peter Furtado; History Today, Vol. 56, July 2006
Subjects: Battlefields--Description and travel, British history, British military assistance, Military assistance, British
...many more, this summer. The Battle of the Somme, July-November...French fortresses surrounding Verdun from February 1916, stretching...lost--and the result was a battle of continuing bloodshed and...abandoned its assault on Verdun. More than a million men...
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Circuit Breakers: How the Example of Wall Street and the Fed Could Help Save the Press from Itself
Magazine article by Cullen Murphy; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 290, September 2002
Subjects: Current events in mass media--Media coverage, Current events--Media coverage
...book The Price of Glory the historian Alistair Home presents a sobering narrative of the ten-month Battle of Verdun, during World War I. In February of 1916 the fortress of Douaumont stood intact, a massive polygonal bastion, its concrete and earthen...
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We Had Such High Hopes,but the Trench Was Choked with Bodies of Men Whohadnot Even Got as Far as the Front Line; Eighty Years Ago,the Battle of the Somme Was about to Start but Few Realised the Terrible Price British Soldiers Would Pay
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 22, 1996
...cauldron of Verdun, the situation...main brunt of the battle would now...pressure on Verdun. The British...knew nothing of the political...believed the battle they were...forty percent of all men in the battle died. Total...000 more at Verdun. The Germans...
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Walking in the Awful Waste of War; Battle of the Somme Anniversary ++
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), July 4, 2006
Subjects: Soldiers
...day in the history of the British Army. Of the 120,000 British soldiers who fought...casualties, with almost 20,000 killed. The battle, which lasted from July 1 to November 18...The French, who were also fighting at Verdun in 1916, suffered more than 200,000 casualties...
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Walking with the Ghosts of Verdun; Death Was a Relief to Many Trapped in This Hell as Remembrance Day Nears, Tom Bower Visits the Killing Fields of France's Bloodiest Battle
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 7, 2004
...Ossuaire reminds visitors that Verdun was not simply a battle of extermination but, even...describes the uniqueness of Verdun, a battle waged in tunnels and forts...and imagine the key points of the battle for Verdun. Helped by a map provided...
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Germans Snub French over Armistice Venue; Survivor: French Soldier at Verdun Diplomatic Incident: Nicholas Sarkozy and Wife Carla Bruni
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 11, 2008
Subjects: French foreign relations--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Soldiers--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations
...north east France an inappropriate place to commemorate Allied dead. Verdun, fought between the Germans and French over 11 months of 1916, was certainly the longest single battle in military history. More than 250,000 died with at least a million...
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The Forgotten Battle; Answers to Correspondents
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 27, 2006
Subjects: Malalas, John
...achieve the promised breakthrough. Following Verdun in 1916, this was the last straw and significant numbers of French units mutinied. As a result, General...have been written about Arras than other battles, but Jonathan Nichollss Cheerful Sacrifice...
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Verdun, Battle Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VERDUN, BATTLE OF the longest and one of...Somme relieved the pressure on Verdun in July, 1916, and by December the French had recovered most of the ground lost. The intention of the Germans had been a battle of attrition in which they...
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Verdun , Town, France
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...French fortress facing Germany and was surrounded by a ring of defenses. The longest battle of World War I was fought at Verdun in 1916 (see Verdun, battle of ). In 1918 the Americans and French were victorious in the Verdun sector and at Saint-Mihiel...
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World War I
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Ypres (see Ypres, battles of ); grueling trench warfare...the next three years the battle line remained virtually...Saint-Quentin, Reims, Verdun, and Saint-Mihiel to Luneville...assault on Verdun (see Verdun, battle of ). The French, rallying...
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Otto I , Holy Roman Emperor
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Middle Kingdom of the Carolingian Lothair I (see Verdun, Treaty of ), including Italy, Burgundy, and Lotharingia , under...and of Duke Eberhard of Franconia were ended by the battle of Andernach (939) and Henrys submission (941). King...
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Lothair I
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...reunite the whole empire under his sole rule. The battle of Fontenoy (841), although indecisive, checked Lothair...forced (843) Lothair to sign the fateful Treaty of Verdun (see Verdun, Treaty of ), which partitioned the empire of Charlemagne among...
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