The Battle of Verdun begins, I. The longest of the World War and one of the hardest in history. Germany set in motion a strategy of weakening France, without conquering the territory, to encourage its rival to recover from the casualties. For the French, on the other hand, defend the strength that became a national honour. In the battle, which lasted for almost ten months, 700,000 people died and France managed to maintain them, but the extreme inhumanity of the army’s commanders became apparent: hundreds of thousands of soldiers were sent to die mercilessly. They only knew mors pour la patrie, Breton, Catalan or Basque.