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Price of Glory, The: Verdun, 1916
The "Price of Glory: Verdun 1916" is the second book of Alistair Horne's
trilogy, which includes "The Fall of Paris" and "To Lose a Battle" and
tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between France and
Germany. 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. "Verdun was the
bloodiest battle in history..."The Price of Glory" is the essential book
on the subject". ("Sunday Times"). "It has almost every merit...Horne
sorts out complicating issues with the greatest clarity. He Verdun 1916has a
splendid gift for depicting individuals".(A.J.P. Taylor, "Observer") Verdun 1916).
"A masterpiece". ("The New York Times"). "Compellingly told...Alastair
Horne uses contemporary accounts from both sides to build up a picture
of heroism, mistakes, even farce".
("Sunday Telegraph"). "Brilliantly written ...very readable; almost like
a historical novel - except that it is true". (Field Marshal Viscount
Montgomery). One of Britain's greatest historians, Sir Alistair Horne,
CBE, is the author of a trilogy on the rivalry between France and
Germany, "The Price of Glory", "The Fall of Paris" and "To Lose a
Battle", as well as a two-volume life of Harold Macmillan.
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