The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916

By (author): "Alistair Horne"
Publish Date: 1962
The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916
ISBN0140170413
ISBN139780140170412
AsinThe Price of Glory: Verdun 1916
CharactersPhilippe Pétain, Erich von Falkenhayn
Original titleThe Price of Glory: Verdun 1916
SeriesFrance #2
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 en