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The Battle of Verdun begins

Postcard map with of Verdun, France, showing the forts of Douaumont and Vaux and the German siege line. Text: Die Belagerung von Verdun (The Seige of Verdun). Reverse: Postkarte / Feldpostkarte, dated France, May (?) 26, 1916.

Postcard map with of Verdun, France, showing the forts of Douaumont and Vaux and the German siege line.

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Die Belagerung von Verdun

The Seige of Verdun

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The Battle of Verdun begins

VERIFY END DATE. NO SOURCE OF 8/15

Herwig p. 197, Hindenburg and Ludendorff declare formal end on 1916-09-02. French continue attacks through mid-December, and recapture Vaux and Douaumont.

1916-02-21

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Some books about The Battle of Verdun begins (26)

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Naval Battles of the First World War Geoffrey Bennett
The 1917 Spring Offensives: Arras, Vimy, Chemin des Dames Yves Buffetaut
The Battle of Verdun Yves Buffetaut
The Battle of Cambrai Brian Cooper
Military Operations France and Belgium, 1915, Vol. I, Winter 1914-15: Battle of Neuve Chappelle : Battle of Ypres [Second] J. E. Edmonds
Military Operations France and Belgium, 1915, Vol. II, Battles of Aubers Ridge, Festubert, and Loos J. E. Edmonds
The Sky on Fire by Raymond H. Fredette Raymond H. Fredette
The First Hundred Thousand; Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a Unit of "K (1)" Ian Hay
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World Holger H. Herwig
The Battle of Vimy Ridge Alexander McKee
First Day on the Somme Martin Middlebrook
Verdun : The Lost History of the Most Important Battle of World War I, 1914-1918 John Mosier
Cheerful Sacrifice: The Battle of Arras, 1917 Jonathan Nicholls
The Road to Verdun Ian Ousby
Verdun Henri Philippe Pétain
Three Armies on the Somme William Philpott
Macedonia: Herbstschlacht in Macedonien Cernabogen 1916 (Autumn battle in Macedonia Cernabogen 1916) Reichsarchivs
The Last of the Ebb: the Battle of the Aisne, 1918 Sidney Rogerson
Above the Battle Romain Rolland
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919 Mark Thompson
The Romanian Battlefront in World War I Glenn E. Torrey
The Campaign of the Marne Sewell Tyng
Betrayal at Littlel Gibraltar: A German Fortress, a Treacherous American General, and the Battle to End World War I William Walker
The Battle of Loos Philip Warner
In Flanders Fields, the 1917 Campaign Leon Wolff