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Alongside Waterloo and Gettysburg, the Battle of Verdun during the First World War is one of history's greatest clashes. Yet, it is also one of the most complex and misunderstood in a war, only imperfectly grasped.
Conventional wisdom holds that the battle began in February 1916 and lasted until December, when the victorious French wrested all the territory they had lost back from the Germans.
In fact, says historian John Mosier, from the very beginning of the war until the armistice in 1918, no fewer than eight distinct battles were waged for the possession of Verdun.