Doc, I believe that Verdun was the Horror Battle of all time. Every official account or narrative I have ever seen agrees with that.
Before you take those accounts at face value, you have to remember that most of them were written by the French, as it was primarily the French army that took the brunt of the German offensive in that battle. I'm not saying the French are wimps by any means, but French battle histories in any war from Napoleon on tend to be a lot more florid than British or German histories.
For my money, I believe that Ypres might have been at least as horrific as Verdun, in a subjective horror sense, although it didn't produce the same numbers of casualties.
