    
Title: Destruction from incessant bombardments Description: Destruction from incessant bombardments created by more than 1,400 German guns that reduced the town of Verdun to rubble in the most prolonged battle of the war (Battle of Verdun, February 21-December 18, 1916) and where the German Fifth Army attacked successfully against several French sectors on the Verdun Front; the French, however, lived up to their pledge Ils ne passeront pas! ("They shall not pass!") by barely holding their secondary defense lines, and, with several counter-attacks over many months, regained most of the ground initially gained by the Germans; this battle of attrition bled both sides white, the French losing 542,000 men and the Germans 434,000; Category: World War I Keywords: artillery, bombardments, cannonades, First World War, The Great War, guns, ordnance, rubble, ruins, war destruction, War to End All Wars, World War I, WWI. Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 2550 x 1609 (4.10 MPixels) (1.58) Print Size: 21.6 x 13.6 cm; 8.5 x 5.4 inches File Size: 11.75 MB (12,321,948 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000048138 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
