Whatever his youth or his impelling spirit of manhood, the fact was that he inspired many of these veterans of the bloody years to Homeric narratives of the siege of verdun, of the retreat toward Paris, of the victory of the Marne, and lastly of the Kaiser's battle, this last and most awful offensive of the resourceful and frightful foe.
"The Desert of Wheat"
Zane Grey
He professed to be desirous of concentrating at verdun, but was afraid to get out of reach of Metz.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
"There is no peace at verdun," she said.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs