Verdun

At France’s World War I battlefield at Verdun, Hupy dug meter-long trenches with a backhoe across bomb craters and in their vicinity, looking for signs of disturbance.

Francois Hollande should say, like Marshal Petain at Verdun,They shall not pass… gas.

It would be unfunny, for different reasons, if set at Verdun or Gettysburg or Stalingrad.

Alistair first came into fame with his book about the Battle of Verdun, The Price of Glory.

When he had gone the detective, turning to the chauffeur, said: "I shall require you to take us to Verdun."

Before leaving Verdun he had seen Pierrepont enter the telegraph bureau—to dispatch a message to the Sûreté, without a doubt.

The allied armies entered France; Longwy surrendered on the 26th and Verdun on the 31st.

Farther northwest are Verdun and Toul, with our American boys.

I did not see my husband for several months, and then he joined us in Nice for a few days before going to Verdun.