Battlefields of the World Wars

Verdun in Northeast France was the scene of World War Is most emblematic battle During the harsh winter the German army prepared to launch an powerful offensive on the Meuse Valley After 300 days of fighting and 300000 dead the fighting shifted away from the Verdun front With so much firepower trained on the French lines why did the German offensive fail How did it color the course of this Great

In April 1917, French soldiers were sure WWI was about to end. More than a million men gathered on the front. How did the Germans stop them?

In the highlands of Southeast France, a small number of French soldiers faced off against 300,000 Italian troops. What explains their heroic victory?

This infamous battle was among the worst allied debacles of WWII. In nine hours of fighting, over 2,000 Allied soldiers, most of them Canadians, died.

On June 5, 1944, over 13,000 parachute troops take on a near-impossible mission to secure the right flank of the next day’s Normandy invasion.

On D-Day, Canadian troops who broke through entered one of the most brutal battles of the offensive – against a Panzer division of Hitler Youth.

For 4 years, the Nazi flag flew atop the Eiffel Tower. Hitler vowed to destroy Paris rather than surrender it, but Parisians helped drive him out.

After the D-Day invasion, German forces counter-attacked. They were met by the steely nerve of the generals – and the heroic bravery of allied troops.