The battle of Verdun is considered to be the greatest and the lengthiest in WW1. Never before or since then has there been that long of a battle involving thousand and thousands of men, situated on a tiny piece of land. The battle lasted from 21st Feb, 1916 to the 19th of December 1916, and theres estimated of over 700000 casualties on both sides, including KIAs, MIAs. The battlefield wasnt even 10 km wide.
This is one of the more important battles of the Great War and I believe it deserves far more than a paragraph of general information.
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