Battle of Verdun (1916)

Ten months of attrition make Verdun the longest battle of the First World War.

Specifications & Metrics

year

1916

Core Principles & Analysis

• The battle lasted about ten months, the longest of the First World War.
• Pétain's troop-rotation system kept the French army from breaking under attrition.
• Combined casualties ran into the many hundreds of thousands.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Battle of Verdun