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The Battlefield of Verdun, as shown in The Sphere, 4 March 1916. The line indicating the Douaumont, right, under heavy French bombardment following its seizure on 25 February. The German advance shows Driant’s Bois des Caures, left, well inside captured territory and Fort picture also gives some idea of the difference in terrain between the […]

Raymond Abescat took part in the offensive against Douaumont and was lucky to come out of it alive. Eighty years after, as one of the last of the Verdun veterans, he recorded his memories of 24 October 1916 and they were as vivid as if they had happened the day before. He recalled ‘a particularly […]