The bayonet trench in Douamont, France, is a war memorial on the Verdun battlefield that rests on a war myth.
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The bayonet trench in Douamont, France, is a war memorial on the Verdun battlefield that rests on a war myth.
Of the six blast furnaces that the Uckange steel factory had in the early twentieth century, today, only the 71-meter-high blast furnace 4 remains.
Bunker 'Ermitage Sud' was part of the Maginot Line, a series of fortifications erected by the French army along its border after the German attack during World War I.
The French military cemetery and monument of Notre-Dame de Lorette, close to Lens, commemorates the thousands of soldiers who lost their lives in one of the heaviest battles during World War I.
The two 30-metre-high pylons of the Canadian War Memorial in Vimy, France, commemorate Canadian soldiers who died during World War I.
At the foot of the French side of the Zwarteberg lies a series of bunkers from the Maginot Line, including this example from 1938.
Fort Vaux in Verdun has become a symbol of the heroism of the French soldiers who braved days of siege and shell attacks by the German army during the First World War.
Around 620, a community of monks founded an abbey atop the hill of the French village of Montfaucon d'Argonne.
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