1915 Military Campaign
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- The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers whole source · open book
But the campaigns of Verdun and the Somme were of a new order of magnitude, both in the firepower employed and the losses sustained; and German casualties on the western front, which had been around 850,000 in 1915, leaped to nearly 1.2 million in 1916.
chapter: Total War and the Power Balances, 1914–1918