One Hundred years ago today the Germans loosed a massive artillery bombardment on the French city of Verdun, and its surrounding forts. A lot of the heavy artillery pieces were railway guns.
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Alistair Horne's The Price of Glory, is simply the best military history I have ever read. I really need to dig it out and read it again.
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