Verdun: First Days

Verdun: First Days
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I have always been fascinated by the macabre, otherworldly landscapes depicted in imagery from the Great War. This image is inspired by perhaps the signature cataclysm of that conflict. On February 21, 1916 German forces under General Erich von Falkenhayn unleashed an attack of unprecedented savagery on the fortified French positions in front of Verdun. The goal: to draw the French into a battle of attrition with no vital objective beyond killing as many of them as possible. During the first week of the battle alone, German heavy artillery fired 2 million shells on a stretch of ground only 19 miles long and three miles wide. 2 million! There's no way to properly grasp such devastation. No sense of proportion is possible, no basis of comparison. To see such a thing up close is to be consumed by it. Nevertheless, I submit a paltry best guest.

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