content: Yep, the Battle of Verdun truly was hell on earth. Non-stop shelling, being forced to live alongside the corpses and body parts of your fallen brothers, striken with dysentery from the rotting filth, gas attacks, massive shell craters filled with poisonous water (from rotting corpses and gas residue), snipers, machine gun fire, and even more shelling. I can't imagine having to live in such conditions, nor can I believe anyone came out of that with their sanity.