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The "battle" of Verdun lasted 10 months; it was less of a battle in the usual sense of a single let's-fight-and-loser-runs-away event, and more like an open-air industrial blender made of shrapnel and bullets into which a continuous stream of mostly innocent people were ordered to walk over a long, long period of time.
The Somme was similar, but worse because it was bigger. All war is hell, but World War 1 was much, much worse.
There's a universe where the Christmas Truce has held to this day, and I wish I was in that one.
I listened to a good part of Blueprint for Armageddon, and I had to stop. It's so, so sad. It's too real.
I still haven't watched "They Shall Never Grow Old" because I'll just bawl the whole time