Word: verdun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...studded stone houses, half of Triquet's men and all his officers were either killed or wounded. Said Triquet: "The only safe place is our objective." He, two sergeants and 15 men made it. There they dug in and Triquet repeated Nivelle's famed order at Verdun, "Ils ne passeront pas" (they shall not pass). Through successive German attacks the handful held their ground. Next morning the Canadians poured through and stormed on to Ortona...
Death Revealed. General Berthold von Deimling, 91, commander (1914-17) of the German Army's Verdun-famed XV Corps; on Feb. 11; in Germany...
...thousand citizens in three weeks, the solemn news of the victory that was really, defeat came through House's spies to the Conference. The dead still lay in the houses of Belgrade that the Austrians had shelled into ruins. Bonsal had walked un moved over the battlefields at Verdun, where many of the corpses were still unburied, "with still protruding, beseeching arms. ..." On Armistice Night in Paris Bonsal had met a brilliant Italian journalist with a careworn face who told him : "Yes, we have an armistice; the ora formidabile has struck." By spring that formidable hour had grown...
When the war began, Romains had finished eight volumes of his novel (16 in the French edition). Published in December 1939 was Verdun, a merciless account of World War I slaughter, and a harrowing picture of inhuman French officership...
...unity was needed, and where was it to be found? The deep love for one's native country, to whose power in World War I all France gave eternal testimony, could not stand alone to justify the slaughter at Verdun. The old generous dream of a new world, where all would share alike in the abundance that all created-a dream born in the bloody gutters of Paris in the days of the guillotine-could not stand up against the ghastly reality of Bolshevism. The liberal hope of an intelligently adjusted international order of compromise and arbitration could...