The Forbidden aaaaForest

 

This is a place where fields and woodlands shroud a secret whose clues are a cratered landscape. These are the forests of Verdun where in 1916 ten months of fighting killed seven-hundred thousand people. It was here that the Germans tried to bleed the French army dry. They fired millions of shells here but about one in eight failed to explode. Sown in the bloody soil, these shells have slumbered since the age of horse-drawn carriages. Rusted on the outside they are still shiny, new and deadly on the inside.