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The Battle of Verdun

The WWI battle that traumatised France, forbidden Tibet in the 1940s and fashion's New Look.

The World War One battle that traumatised France; the Austrian mountaineer who wrote Seven Years in Tibet; how Christian Dior revolutionised fashion with the 'New Look'. Plus, how Foot-and-Mouth disease broke the hearts of British farmers and the botched assassination which humiliated the Israeli Secret Service.

(Photo: French Troops under fire at Verdun. Credit: General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

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Mon 22 Feb 201604:06GMT
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