![]() After a massive bombardment, the Germans advanced with little opposition for four days before the. ![]() As part of its strategy of war by attrition, Germany selected the fortress of Verdun as the site it believed France would defend to the last man. ![]() Drawing even more heavily on archives, letters, and journals than Alistair Horne in his classic 1962 The Price of Glory, Jankowski has written a superb, definitive popular account of Verdun through the eyes of soldiers, military leaders, and citizens of the two nations. the German objective at Verdun was to drag the French into a battle of attrition in an area where the Germans held local superiority and could slowly bleed. 21July 1916) Major engagement of World War I between Germany and France. Most French and German people at the time believed that national survival was at stake, and while some of the suffering soldiers agreed, many dissented as well. Verdun remains the epitome of senseless industrial slaughter, writes Jankowski, professor of history at Brandeis University (Shades of Indignation: Political Scandals in France), in an engrossing history that focuses less on the fighting than its political and cultural background. Although France celebrates the Battle of Verdun as a great victory, historians agree it had no political impact and decided little, if anything, in the wider war. Museum of the Great War, Peronne Verdun Battlefield Verdun Memorial Museum What happened at the Battle of Verdun What was the German strategy in launching. By December, French forces recovered most of the lost ground. The Battle of Verdun in 1916 was not merely a severe local setback for the Germans by using up their best troops it had also very important strategical. Both nations poured in reinforcements, and months of attacks and counterattacks produced massive casualties but only modest German advances. On February 21, 1916, a million shells descended on the trenches surrounding the French city of Verdun German troops advanced a few miles until stopped by rain, mud, and resistance.
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