Writing in 2005, Robert A. Doughty gave French casualties (21 February to 20 December 1916) as and casualties of Verdun and the Somme; of the casualties at Verdun were fatal, were wounded and missing, many of whom were eventually presumed dead. Doughty wrote that other historians had followed Winston Churchill (1927) who gave a figure of by mistakenly including all French losses on the Western Front. R. G. Grant gave a figure of and casualties in 2005. In 2005, Robert Foley used the Wendt calculations of 1931 to give German casualties at Verdun from 21 February to 31 August 1916 of (In 2014, William Philpott recorded casualties, of whom had been killed; German casualties were and noted a recent estimate of casualties at Verdun from 1914 to 1918 of ).
