Verdun grinds up the French army
February 21, 1916
German guns opened on the Meuse heights, trying to bleed France white. For ten months the two armies fed men into forts and shell-holes with names like Dead Man and Vaux. Three hundred thousand died in a few square miles of ruined hills. They shall not pass, said Petain. Neither did the Germans, quite.
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