The Price of Glory: Verdun, 1916 by Alistair Horne, Alistair Horne

The Price of Glory: Verdun, 1916

Alistair Horne, Alistair Horne

372 pages first pub 1962 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional slow-paced
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An account of the German assault on the French fortress, the aim of which was not so much to defeat the enemy as to bleed him to death. The price was 700,000 dead on a 15 mile front. The author also wrote "The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Comm...

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