There is no quick route by which one may approach Verdun. No superhighway ... a man than the very master of military fortifications in the Enlightenment Age, the French king Louis XIV’s engineer ...

“I’m frightened here,” wrote one French soldier. “Verdun’s a man-eater, isn’t it?” Verdun is about 2 1/2 hours east of Paris' Charles De Gaulle Airport and about an hour and a half ...

A century after the Battle of Verdun a French soldier who was left behind on the battlefield will get a proper burial Wednesday after being identified by DNA samples from his relatives.

Hundreds of thousands... The tombstones of five WWI French soldiers are pictured at Fleury-devant-Douaumont near Verdun, northeastern France, March 30, 2014. The second grave (2ndL) contains the ...

Perhaps the most powerful WWI sightseeing experience is ... The nearby Douaumont Ossuary is the tomb of unknown French and German soldiers who perished in Verdun’s muddy trenches.

The Battle of Verdun, fought between French and German troops for much of 1916, was the longest and among the deadliest of World War One. Altogether, almost 300,000 soldiers were killed.

Verdun was fought on the Western Front between the French and German armies, with 700,00 soldiers killed or injured. But the education ministry has decided that it is more valuable for French ...

Henry Sheahan, a 28-year-old Harvard alumnus, wrote about the wounded at Verdun**. Even though they weren’t in the trenches with the French infantry soldiers, many American ambulance drivers ...

Russell Doherty said the sacrifice and involved of the island's French residents was ... It left an estimated 800,000 soldiers dead, wounded or missing Verdun has long been a key defensive ...

Born on November 27, 1880 in Colombier-en-Brionnais, about 400 kilometres (250 miles) south of Verdun ... and the dead soldier. But while the Poilu, or "hairy one" as the French called World ...

The service also remembered all those killed during the Battle of Verdun - the longest battle of the war. Russell Doherty, from the Military History Company, said: "The contribution of the French ...