Fields of Battle - Verdun

Ruined church at Ornes, Verdun. Ornes is one of the nine villages totally destroyed during the battle of Verdun in 1916. After the war the ground was considered too badly contaminated and too dangerous to allow it to be cultivated so the region was declared a Zone Rouge and simply planted with trees

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