A French shell dating from the First World War is pictured in the Verdun forest, on March 24, 2014, in Vaux-devant-Damloup, eastern France. A century after the fighting, ...

The little blue flowers that have grown for a century now in France near the graves of the war dead at Douaumont can easily be mistaken for local forget-me-nots. In fact they are a foreign import ...

Sisyrinchium montanum, best known as American blue-eyed grass, is part of a rich legacy left by the carnage of World War I in France’s forest of Verdun, which is a unique mix of flora and fauna. The ...

For example, one of the most brutal battles of WWI was fought in Verdun, France. That trench warfare site is now 25,000 acres of regenerated forest that attracts more than a quarter-million ...

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.

Sisyrinchium montanum, best known simply as American blue-eyed grass, is part of a rich legacy left by the carnage of World War I in France’s Forest of Verdun: a unique mix of flora and fauna.

The little blue flowers that have grown for a century now in France near the graves of the war dead at Douaumont can easily be mistaken for local forget-me-nots. In fact they are a foreign import, an ...

File photo of a teenager holding flowers during a commemoration marking the 90th anniversary of the WW I Battle of Verdun, on June 9, 2006 in Douaumon ...