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Article: Theater of Blood.('The Road to Verdun: World War I's Most Momentous Battle and the Folly of Nationalism')
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- June 17, 2002
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The Road to Verdun: World War I's Most Momentous Battle and the Folly of Nationalism, by Ian Ousby (Doubleday, 400 pp., $30)
Verdun is one among other rather inconspicuous towns in the hilly French countryside between the rivers of the Meuse and the Rhine. The place has entered history as the site of one of the most atrocious of the many set- piece battles of the First World War. In the course of the 1916 fighting at Verdun, according to accepted figures, the French suffered 378,777 casualties, of whom 162,430 were killed or missing; the German dead or missing were comparable, about 143,000 out of 330,000 casualties. That same year, the battle of the Somme in ...
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