Witness the horror of the Battle of Verdun - the deadliest, longest, and most dreadful clash of WWI. Experience the nightmarish landscapes and the colossal toll it took on French and German soldiers.

Verdun was one of the most savagely fought battles of World War One. The Germans fired two million shells in the opening eight-hour bombardment, and tens of millions were fired over the course of ...

Even worse, the French, complacently believing Verdun to be impregnable, had been steadily hollowing out its defenses, stripping many of the forts around the city of their guns for use elsewhere ...

Among the many causes of that ancient Greek war was an attempt by Athens at a variation of “nation building” within a region controlled by Sparta — an unfortunate side-effect of Athenian democracy… as ...