The Price of Glory
Alistair Horne
The battle of Verdun lasted ten months. It was a battle in which at least 700,000 men fell, along a front of fifteen miles. Its aim was less to defeat the enemy than bleed him to death and a battleground whose once fertile terrain is even now a haunted wilderness. Alistair Horne's classic work, continuously in print for over fifty years, is a profoundly moving, sympathetic study of the battle and the men who fought there. It shows that Verdun is a key to understanding the First World War to the minds of those who waged it, the traditions that bound them and the world that gave them the opportunity.
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Year:
2007
Publisher:
Penguin UK
Language:
english
Pages:
400
ISBN 10:
0141937521
ISBN 13:
9780141937526
File:
EPUB, 1.67 MB
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english, 2007