--- title: Ghosts of World War I: Revisiting Verdun, 50 Years Later description: LIFE.com presents haunting color pictures -- made 50 years after the guns of World War I fell silent -- from the French town of Verdun. canonical: https://time.com/3880106/ghosts-of-world-war-i-revisiting-verdun-50-years-later/ author: Liz Ronk article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-07T21:43:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:03:40.845Z og:title: Ghosts of World War I: Revisiting Verdun, 50 Years Later og:description: LIFE.com presents haunting color pictures -- made 50 years after the guns of World War I fell silent -- from the French town of Verdun. og:url: https://time.com/3880106/ghosts-of-world-war-i-revisiting-verdun-50-years-later/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltadb34dec616a7173/69884c0c8e0601803c460124/140613-wwi-verdun-04.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: Verdun France 1964 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ghosts of World War I: Revisiting Verdun, 50 Years Later twitter:description: LIFE.com presents haunting color pictures -- made 50 years after the guns of World War I fell silent -- from the French town of Verdun. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltadb34dec616a7173/69884c0c8e0601803c460124/140613-wwi-verdun-04.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ghosts of World War I: Revisiting Verdun, 50 Years Later > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. by [Liz Ronk](https://time.com/author/liz-ronk/) ## Liz Ronk Jun 7, 2014 9:43 PM UTC  Not published in LIFE. Verdun, France, 1964. Not published in LIFE. Verdun, France, 1964.Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images by [Liz Ronk](https://time.com/author/liz-ronk/) ## Liz Ronk Jun 7, 2014 9:43 PM UTC In the spring of 1964, LIFE photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt — who served as a German artilleryman during World War I and saw action in the terrible fighting at [Passchendaele](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%5Fof%5FPasschendaele) — and correspondent Ken Gouldthorpe traveled to [Verdun](http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/battle-of-verdun), in northeastern France, where one of the costliest battles of WWI took place five decades before. Here, 100 years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which precipitated the cataclysm, LIFE.com presents Eisenstaedt’s quietly powerful color pictures from Verdun: images of an idyllic landscape that still bears the scars, and seemingly harbors the ghosts, of “the war to end all wars.” --- > “” ---  Caption from LIFE. "The sullen turrets of Verdun's forts still guard the world's most deadly battlefields, relics of the war that left unhealed scars on history." Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Verdun, France, 1964. Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. "Toady in an ossuary near Douaumont, even now smelling of death, rest the bones of 130,000 unidentified casualties from both sides." Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Verdun, France, 1964. Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Verdun, France, 1964. Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Verdun, France, 1964. Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Verdun, France, 1964. Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  A World War I helmet, Verdun, France, 1964. Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Verdun, France, 1964. Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Verdun, France, 1964. Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Verdun, France, photographed from the air, 1964. Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Verdun, France, 1964. Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Verdun, France, 1964. Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Verdun, France, 1964. Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Verdun, France, 1964. Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. "14,000 marble crosses honor Americans" at Verdun. Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. "At Vaux rests a plaque to one soldier." Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. "One monument remembers refugees." Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. "Near the crest at Montfaucon -- where in 1918 U.S. infantry routed the Germans with bayonets but suffered enormous losses -- a village cross holds up a shell-shattered Christ." Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. "At Douaumont a statue of a French soldier lies with 15,000 actual dead." Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Verdun, France, 1964. Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Verdun, France, 1964. Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Not published in LIFE. Verdun, France, 1964. 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