![]() It is what I call a very physical landscape. What people love about visiting Verdun is that there is so much still to see, and it doesn’t feel like too much has changed in the last 100 years. ![]() ![]() In the Germans’ nine-hour opening bombardment on 21st February 1916, they sent across 2.5 million artillery shells! While nature tries hard with the help of time to reclaim the landscape, it is understandably irreversibly changed. The statistics that surround the First World War’s longest battle are almost too staggering to believe. ![]() They can perhaps be seen most clearly across the battlefields of Verdun. The scars of war are left upon the landscapes that we visit on a First or Second World War Tour.
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