This historic, archaeological and commemorative heritage bears the stamp of authenticity. Today, Meuse boasts the richest “Great War“ heritage in the world. The battlefields are maintained as authentic battle sites and remains, testimonials to the fighting waged during the Great War. It indeed honours the memory the French soldiers, who were buried alive in their trench after a shell explosion during the Battle of Verdun on June 12, 1916. Where was the Battle of Verdun The Battle of Verdun was fought in a salient around the French town of Verdun. The civilian population was forced to flee and many people never came back again. The Battle of Verdun was the longest battle of the First World War, lasting from the 21st February 1916 until the 18th December 1916. Farmland and forest were turned into wastelands of death classified as “Red Zone“. Dozens of villages and towns suffered irreversible damage. Many of them were buried many were never found. The battle was between France and Germany (Phillips and Axelrod). Hundreds of thousands of young men died here. It was fought on the Western Front in France. Europeans, Africans and Americans fought in Meuse. The Battle of Verdun was so fierce that it became the mother of all great battles in the 20th century. And among all the battlefields, the largest is world-famous - Verdun. From 1914 to 1918, from the Argonne to the Saint-Mihiel Salient and from Vauquois to Les Eparges, the whole of Meuse was in the front line during the Great War. The Battle of Verdun in 1916 was the longest single battle of World War One. Meuse is synonymous with the First World War. Apocalypse: Verdun takes us to the infamous and bloody battle of Verdun that occurred in February 1916, when World War I had been raging for two years.
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