Price Of Glory

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The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916" is the second book of Alistair Hornes trilogy which

Includes:: " The Fall of Paris" & " To Lose a Battle" & tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between France & 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 & a battleground whose once fertile terrain is even now a haunted wilderness. Alistair Hornes classic work continuously in print for over fifty years is a profoundly moving sympathetic study of the battle & 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 & 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 has a splendid gift for depicting individuals". (A.J.P. Taylor " Observer"). "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 Britains greatest historians Sir Alistair Horne CBE is the author of a trilogy on the rivalry between France & Germany " The Price of Glory" " The Fall of Paris" & " To Lose a Battle" as well as a two-volume life of Harold Macmillan."