The little blue flowers that have grown for a century now in France near the graves of the war dead at Douaumont can easily be mistaken for local forget-me-nots. In fact they are a foreign import, an ...

French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will on Sunday stand shoulder to shoulder on the battlefield of Verdun to remember those killed 100 years ago in one of the ...

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Home Archive A poisoned memorial to World War I: The forests of Verdun The guns of World War I fell silent 100 years ago here, but a quiet battle still smolders on in this forest. Roots of trees and ...

For every nation, there are battles whose names for one reason or another mean more to their people than most. For Americans, its Gettysburg. For Australians and New Zealanders, its Gallipoli. For the ...

Soar over Verdun, France, a city deeply scarred by history and home to one of the infamous Zone Rouges—areas still uninhabitable due to the devastation of World War I. This drone footage reveals the ...

A head on confrontation, no help from their allies, army versus army, nation versus nation. 11 months of fighting, over 2 million soldiers mobilised and 300,000 dead. We look back at this insane ...