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The ten-month battle of Verdun is symbolic of the costly and indecisive offensives of the attritional phase of the First World War. It epitomises the style of warfare of the machine age. Above all it was an artillery battle, in which men endured what the German infantry officer and author Ernst Jünger characterised as the ‘storm of steel’ for little perceptible result.
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© 2005 Matthew Hughes & William J. Philpott
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Hughes, M., Philpott, W.J. (2005). The Battle of Verdun. In: The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the First World War. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230504806_25
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