The Battle of Verdun, a massive German onslaught in northeastern France meant to gain a decisive final victory on the Western Front in World War I, began on this day in history, Feb. 21, 1916. It is ...

On a heavily wooded ridge above the river Meuse, 170 miles to the east of Paris, there is a village of ghosts. The 50 houses which once stood here disappeared in a sheet of flame 90 years ago this ...

History re-enactors dressed as First World War Austro-Hungarian soldiers and a woman dressed as being from that time period walk among the ruins of Fort de Troyon, a labyrinthine fortress built into a ...

Francois Hollande and Angela Merkel laid a wreath at a cemetery where 11,000 German soldiers are buried France and Germany have marked the 100th anniversary of the World War One battle of Verdun in ...