He planned to use a relatively small number of men to capture the high ground to the north of Verdun and then to inflict enormous casualties on the French using his superior German artillery to ...

For a number of months the French had been taking severe losses at Verdun to the East of Paris ... British army suffered its largest number of casualties ever – 19,200 dead and around 60,000 ...

they shall not pass! The fierce Battle of Verdun continues but as the Germans under Crown prince Wilhelm push harder and harder, the German casualties begin to rise to the same levels as the French.