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Description: Town in northeastern France, in Meuse Department, on the Meuse River, in Lorraine. Verdun (German (old): Wirten, ... more

Verdun ... official name before 1970 Verdun-sur-Meuse) is a city and commune in the Lorraine région, northeast France, in the Meuse département, of which it is a sous-préfecture. Population 25,000.

Newest Review: ... as well as illuminated maps of the battle. Probably the best museum I had visited in the Verdun area. Finally, we trekked to the Citadelle Souterraine (Underground Citadel). Walking through a chilly underground tunnel brought us to the begi nning of the presentation. Sitting in wooden cabs on tracks, we were ... more

... taken through the pitch-black tunnels, past several holographic displays focusing on the life of the individual soldier in the trenches at Verdun. This was quite an informative tour, with high-quality images that stood out well in the darkness of the tun...more

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12 million unexploded shells - Verdun in the present day (938 words)
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Verdun, a ten-month battle that claimed close to a million German and French lives, was as far as I can gather the most brutal of battles, in the most terrible of wars. Verdun was the Great War battle with the highest density of dead per square meter, and to this day some 12 million (yes, this mind-boggling figure has been confirmed) unexploded shells still lie buried in the soil around the town. Appallingly, the suffering is still not entirely over – as late as 1991, 36 Frenchmen were killed whilst attempting to exhume unexploded shells still left over from three-quarters of a century previously. Verdun itself was never taken during the battle, which ... Read the complete review

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