Mosier claims that the battle of Verdun began with the 1914 semi-fictional battle of the Marne and lasted through October, 1918, when the Americans crossed the Meuse. The crux of the book is summed up ...

Verdun was the most destructive and in many ways the most crucial battle of World War I, a war that, as its 50th anniversary nears, is just now beginning to generate in Europe the same post-mortem ...

The World War One Historical Association has awarded Paul Jankowski, the Raymond Ginger Professor of History, the 2014 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Book Prize for his book “Verdun: The Longest Battle of ...

The Road to Verdun: World War I’s Most Momentous Battle and the Folly of NationalismBy Ian OusbyDoubleday, 393 pages, $45Writing in 1931, French man of letters Paul Valery pondered the ...

Geoffrey Norman reviews "Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918" and "Verdun: The Longest Battle of the Great War," by Paul Jankowski ...

Verdun was World War I combat at its worst — “very impersonal and very, very industrial,” says Paul Jankowski, the Raymond Ginger Professor of History, who has written a new book titled “Verdun: The ...

The Battle of Verdun, a massive German onslaught in northeastern France meant to gain a decisive final victory on the Western Front in World War I, began on this day in history, Feb. 21, 1916.