For Australians and New Zealanders, its Gallipoli. For the British and Canadians, it’s the Somme. For France, perhaps one of the most important battles in its recent history was the Battle of ...

The three memorials are receiving greater protection to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Verdun, which ran from February 21 to December 18, 1916, as the French defended ...

Fought from February into December of 1916, Verdun was the longest battle of the war and one of the costliest in human history. Between them, the Germans and the French suffered more than 700,000 ...