Under Siege! Season 1 Episode 4 Verdun 1916: The Mill on the Meuse
- April 19, 2008
- 46 min
The fanatical French defense of the three forts cost hundreds of thousands of lives and was in part the reason the battle of the Somme was fought during the same year. Toward the end of the battle almost 700,000 French and German troops had been killed or wounded, earning the siege's chilling nick-name "The Mincer."
