could von Falkenhayn have won at Verdun? Or was he doomed to fail from the start?
>>3336262
Falkenhayn actually missed two separate opportunities to take Verdun with minimal casualties. He retroactively explained this by saying that he wasn't actually trying to capture Verdun in the first place, and for some reason, historians have accepted this laughable premise for decades.
>>3336262
The original plan of letting Verdun be a slaughterhouse was a succes