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Barbed wire and shell craters still surround Fort Vaux, over 100 years after the cataclysmic battle.
Verdun - scene of one of the costliest battles in military history, so bloody troops called it the 'Meat grinder' (Hachoir à viande).
Verdun exemplified the policy of a "war of attrition" pursued by both sides, which led to 300,000 dead and 500,000 wounded over the course of 11 grim months of 1916.
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