The price of glory, Verdun 1916, Alistair Horne
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Label
The price of glory, Verdun 1916, Alistair Horne
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-358) and indexes
Illustrations
platesmapsillustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The price of glory
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
30715855
Responsibility statement
Alistair Horne
Series statement
Penguin history
Sub title
Verdun 1916
Summary
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; the battle whose aim was less to defeat the enemy than bleed him to death; the battleground whose once fertile terrain even now resembles a haunted wilderness, battered and crumbling. Alistair Horne's book is more than a chronicle of the facts of battle. It is a profoundly moving, sympathetic study of men who fought there, and shows that Verdun is a key to understanding the First World War, a key to the minds of those who waged it, to traditions that bound them, and to the world that gave them the opportunity. This unabridged edition contains a new preface and additional photographs--Publisher's description
Table Of Contents
Preface -- 1. La Débâcle -- 2. Joffre of the Marne -- 3. Falkenhayn -- 4. Operation Gericht -- 5. The waiting machine -- 6. The first day -- 7. The fall of Colonel Driant -- 8. Breakthrough -- 9. Fort Douaumont -- 10. De Castelnau decides -- 11. Pétain -- 12. The take-over -- 13. Reappraisals -- 14. The Mort Homme -- 15. Widening horizons -- 16. In another country -- 17. The air battle -- 18. The crown prince -- 19. The triumvirate -- 20. "May Cup" -- 21. Fort Vaux -- 22. Danger signals -- 23. The secret enemies -- 24. The crisis -- 25. Falkenhayn dismissed -- 26. The counter strokes -- 27. The new leader -- 28. Aftermath -- Epilogue