Sentence examples of "verdun" in English
What Forsytes, what Thibaults, or Rougon-Macquarts, or even Bolkonskys or Rostovs are even conceivable after Verdun, Auschwitz, or Hiroshima?
Какие Форсайты, какие Тибо и Ругон-Маккары, какие даже Болконские и Ростовы вообще мыслимы после Вердена, Освенцима и Хиросимы?
The second, which culminated in World War I, was driven by massed firepower, and is expressed in the saying, reportedly coined at the Battle of Verdun in 1916, “artillery conquers, infantry occupies.”
Второе поколение войн – их пик пришелся на Первую мировою войну – зависело от большого количества огневой мощи. Их суть выражена фразой, сказанной, как предполагается, во время битвы при Вердене в 1916 году: «артиллерия разрушает, пехота занимает».
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