![]() ![]() He has a splendid gift for depicting individuals' A.J.P. Horne sorts out complicating issues with the greatest clarity. The Price of Glory is the essential book on the subject' Sunday Times 'It has almost every merit. ![]() 'Verdun was the bloodiest battle in history. 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. ![]() 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. 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. It was a battle in which at least 700,000 men fell, along a front of fifteen miles. 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. ![]()
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