Verdun... one of the worst battles of all time.. WW2 revolutionized some things, but WWI was scarier in some ways. In Verdun you had the Germans firing 2,800 artillery guns day and night for months. Every where you looked, body parts and pieces of trees flew through the air.. The thing about WWI was that all of the modern war machines that existed in 1914 hadn’t been used in combat yet. When the war began, every side had technologies they had never tested. In Verdun, PTSD became a thing.. It tested the lengths men can go to mentally and physically.. People would fight on the front line, and their relief would often get decimated on the way to the people they’re supposed to replace. It was one of the largest battles of all time. Stalingrad took the cake though... The thing about WWI that people don’t understand before trench war-fare set in, was that all the armies mobilized fast and it was open conventional warfare... Hundreds of thousands of men fighting.. waves of hundreds going in, and in, and in.. Dying by the thousands..
