Clash of Warriors
Season 1, Episode 15: Petain vs von Falkenhayn - Verdun
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Desperate to break the stalemate on the Western Front in 1916, Germany's army chief-of-staff, Erich von Falkenhayn, conceived a diabolical plan — by attacking one of France's most symbolic towns, he would draw her army into a bloodbath, and bleed it to death. At first this seemed to be working all too well, for more than six months the battle raged, with more than three-quarters of the French army going in to defend Verdun and suffering dreadfully. But the Germans had not allowed for the courage of the ordinary French soldlers, or the steadfastness of their commander, Philippe Petain.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
Patton vs von Kluge - Normandy Breakout
Episode 2
Bradley vs Model - Battle of the Bulge
Episode 3
Stilwell vs Honda - Burma
Episode 4
Rommel vs Montgomery - El Alamein
Episode 5
Alexander vs von Arnim - Tunisia
Episode 6
Halsey vs Kurita - Leyte Gulf
Episode 7
Manstein vs Vatutin - Kursk
Episode 8
Vandegrift vs Hyakutake - Guadalcanal
Episode 9
Harris vs Kammhuber - Strategic Bombing
Episode 10
MacArthur vs Yamashita - Philippines
Episode 11
Dayan vs Amer - Six Day War
Episode 12
Eisenhower vs Rundstedt - D-Day
Episode 13
Hindenburg vs Duke Nicholas - Tannenberg
Episode 14
Haig vs Ludendorff - 1918
Episode 15
Petain vs von Falkenhayn - Verdun
Episode 16
Kesselring vs Mark Clark - Italy
Episode 17
Zhukov vs Bock - Moscow
Episode 18
Paulus vs Chuikov - Stalingrad
Episode 19
Saddam vs Schwarzkopf - Gulf War
Episode 20
Doenitz vs Horton - Battle of the Atlantic
Episode 21
Allenby vs von Sanders - Battle of Megiddo
Episode 22
Buckner vs Ushijima - Okinawa
Episode 23
Giap vs Westmoreland - Tet Offensive
Episode 24
Yamamoto vs Nimitz - Midway
Episode 25
Dowding vs Goering - Battle of Britain
Episode 26
Pershing vs Gallwitz - Western Front