You'll hear the British try to push the Battle of the Somme or Battle of Passchendaele as more deadly than Verdun. They barely edge it out.

But what the Bongs aren't telling you is the French were heavily involved in both of those battles too. While the Somme, for example, was a primarily British push and they lost 95K men, the French lost 50K in the same battle... and 150K in Verdun.

This is deaths. Casualties in these battles totaled over a million, some of these guys were going home without legs or with half their face melted off from gas.

Only to push a few miles at a time.

That war was a slaughterhouse.