麻豆社

In 1964, the 麻豆社 broadcast one of its most important and ambitious series ever. The Great War was to be the definitive account of the world-shattering events of 1914-1918. The eleventh part of this 26-part classic series looks at Verdun, one of the bloodiest battles known to history, continuing with almost non-stop violence for ten months during 1916. The French and Germans suffered over 700,000 casualties, and when the war ended, some 150,000 unidentified corpses were collected from the battlefield. In 1962, Lord Montgomery commented: 'I doubt if the French army ever recovered from Verdun; it certainly had not by 1940'.