Unfortunately for the French, somewhere along the line this order got lost in the chaos, and the new garrison never occupied the fort. In short, the linchpin of French defenses north of Verdun was ...

Soar over Verdun, France, a city deeply scarred by history and home to one of the infamous Zone Rouges—areas still ...

More Charles Platiau/Reuters A tree grows in the WWI London trench at Douaumont near Verdun, northeastern France, March 30, 2014. After the recapture of Fort Douaumont and Fort Vaux by French ...

Verdun was one of the most savagely fought battles ... They fought for control of the Kamina wireless station. WW1: Why was the first day of the Somme such a disaster? documentWW1: Why was the ...

The front lines crisscrossed the fields of Verdun for almost the duration of WWI. Some 60 million shells were fired during the 10-month battle here from February to December 1916. “The ...

Yet, it has a mayor, and you can even stop in the village on a hilltop outside of Verdun. Especially in this year that marks the centenary of the end of WWI, a visit to Fleury makes for a ...

Today marks the 100th anniversary since the Battle of Verdun began. Lasting 300 days ... The Last Days of the Fort of Vaux, 13 where there is plenty of whitewashed nonsense. He wrote about liaison ...

Take a look at the first screenshots in the gallery below. Isonzo, like Verdun and Tannenberg before it in the WW1 series, aims to be as accurate in its details as possible. Weapons, uniforms ...

Verdun was released for PC last year, with the boast that it was the "first multiplayer FPS set in a realistic World War One setting." Rumours were floating around earlier this month of a console ...