Verdun In A Day
- Author
- Paul Reed
- Published
- Sat 05 Aug 2023
- Episode Link
- https://oldfrontline.co.uk/2023/08/05/verdun-in-a-day/
In the latest of our series of Battlefields in a Day, we travel to Eastern France and look at the Battlefields around Verdun. Verdun was the longest single battle of the Great War, lasting some 300 days and 300 nights, fought between February and December 1916. More than 770,000 French and German soldiers became casualties in what the Poilus called 'the mincing machine'.
