World War I's Battle of Verdun began with a German artillery attack on French positions on this day in history, Feb. 21, 1916. It's considered the longest battle in modern warfare.

Online WWI FPS Verdun just got a massive free update that puts a lot of paid expansions to shame, adding new maps, units, guns, visual effects and more.

As the world honors the centenary of the end of WWI, major French battle sites such as Verdun in the Meuse department make for sobering and spellbinding destinations.

At Verdun, the sheer weight of firepower exceeded anything seen even in the murderous campaigns of 1914 and 1915. Artillery was assembled by the Germans, and later the French, on an unimagined scale.

While Verdun's long-awaited beach opened last month, people have only been able to swim a handful of times. "The reason why we're closing the beach is for safety reasons, so it's better that it's ...

Verdun officially became a municipality of its own in 1875, the city says on its website, and the neighbourhood's population grew in the early 20th century as working-class families moved out of ...

The Verdun I saw on March 24, 1916, after a month of explosive shells and incendiary bombs, was almost half in ruin. Almost every house was bitten and pockmarked with fragments of shell.

From a stock of over 500 hours of restored and colorized archival footage, a new two-part series Apocalypse WWI: Verdun by Isabelle Clarke and Daniel Costelle takes viewers on a journey into the ...

LONDON, Feb. 24, 1916 (UP) - Under the eyes of the Kaiser, the German crown prince and his army are smashing their way steadily toward the fortress of Verdun, in France. They are less than eight ...

Verdun - a strong point on the long frontline dividing the French and German armies - was the longest battle of World War One. At the end of the bloodshed, France emerged as the victor, by ...