The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916
Alistair Horne
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 g...
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Rok:
1994
Wydanie:
Revised ed.
Wydawnictwo:
Penguin Books
Język:
english
Strony:
388
ISBN 10:
0140170413
ISBN 13:
9780140170412
Plik:
PDF, 39.81 MB
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english, 1994