A Century After Its End, See 10 Photos From the Longest Battle of World War I

By the time the Battle of Verdun drew to a close in December of 1916, it had been been going on for nearly a year ...

1916: The bloody battle of Verdun

The thundering of cannons could be heard 150 kilometers away.The chief of the German General Staff, Erich von Falkenhayn, had given the order to attack the French. He wanted to end the trench warfare ...