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Walking with the ghosts of Verdun Death was a relief to many trapped in this hell As Remembrance Day nears, Tom Bower visits the killing fields of France's bloodiest battle
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STANDING in the drizzle, peering through misty glass at the bones
of 130,000 French and German soldiers killed during the Verdun
inferno, was a chilling introduction to the worst slaughter of the
First World War.
Stored in the Ossuaire, a huge, shabby stone mausoleum in the
midst of the hillside battlefields, the indelible remains of brave
soldiers, bled and blown to death across the surrounding farmland, is
testament to the power of 60million artillery shells fired for ten
months aft...
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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Walking with the ghosts of Verdun; Death was a relief to many trapped in this hell As Remembrance Day nears, Tom Bower visits the killing fields of France's bloodiest battle.
The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
; Byline: TOM BOWER STANDING in the drizzle, peering through misty glass at the bones of 130,000 French and German soldiers killed during the Verdun inferno, was a chilling introduction to the worst slaughter of the First World War. Stored in the Ossuaire, a huge, shabby stone mausoleum in the midst
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Walking with the ghosts of Verdun Death was a relief to many trapped in this hell As Remembrance Day nears, Tom Bower visits the killing fields of France's bloodiest battle
Mail on Sunday
; STANDING in the drizzle, peering through misty glass at the bones of 130,000 French and German soldiers killed during the Verdun inferno, was a chilling introduction to the worst slaughter of the First World War. Stored in the Ossuaire, a huge, shabby stone mausoleum in the midst of the hillside
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I get a kick from CHAMPAGNE ... But then, who doesn't? Our man raises his glass to a magical family break in France with fizz, fun and compelling history
Daily Mail
; MY CHILDREN disagree with me about history. I am obsessed by it. Harry and Charlotte, 22 and 27, find a little goes a long way. They still haven't quite forgiven me for reciting chunks of Macaulay's epic poem Horatius on the Tiber bridge in Rome a while ago. Happily, however, they continue to
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I get a kick from CHAMPAGNE
Daily Mail
; But then, who doesn't? Our man raises his glass to a magical family break in France with fizz, fun and compelling history by Max Hastings MY CHILDREN disagree with me about history. I am obsessed by it. Harry and Charlotte, 22 and 27, find a little goes a long way. They still haven't quite forgiven
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 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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Blast from past.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
; A shell from World War I killed two French soldiers yesterday when it exploded on the 1916 battlefield of Verdun. They had strayed from safe paths.
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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I get a kick from CHAMPAGNE; ... But then, who doesn't? Our man raises his glass to a magical family break in France with fizz, fun - and compelling history.
The Daily Mail (London, England)
; Byline: MAX HASTINGS MY CHILDREN disagree with me about history. I am obsessed by it. Harry and Charlotte, 22 and 27, find a little goes a long way. They still haven't quite forgiven me for reciting chunks of Macaulay's epic poem Horatius on the Tiber bridge in Rome a while ago. Happily, however,
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I get a kick from CHAMPAGNE.
The Daily Mail (London, England)
; Byline: MAX HASTINGS But then, who doesn't? Our man raises his glass to a magical family break in France with fizz, fun - and compelling history by Max Hastings MY CHILDREN disagree with me about history. I am obsessed by it. Harry and Charlotte, 22 and 27, find a little goes a long way. They still
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 "Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)")
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pounds 15,000 vandal attack on war graves.(News)
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
; VANDALS broke about 150 crosses on the graves of French soldiers killed in the First World War on the great battlefields at Verdun. Police believe the crosses were destroyed over the weekend at the Commercy cemetery in eastern France where about 2,300 French soldiers are buried. The cost of
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1932: France Salutes Defense of Verdun
International Herald Tribune
; In the most impressive ceremony of its kind held in France since the war, President Albert Lebrun today [August 8] inaugurated the great Douaumont memorial ossuary, last resting place of the shattered remains of 400,000 French soldiers, in commemoration of the three-year siege of Verdun and the
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The devil's garden: The slaughter at Verdun in WWI echoes across the century.
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ... inhabited again. Nine villages around Verdun disappeared from the maps of France, never to rise again. The city itself has its share ... tried to erase the salient is presented in detail: battlefield maps, old photos and bullet-scarred artifacts. Hung overhead, a German ...
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