Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Price of GloryCondition: NewEAN: 9780140170412ISBN: 9780140170412Publisher: Penguin Books LtdFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 11/04/1993Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 17mmItem Weight: 277gAuthor: Alistair HorneLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Verdun 1916ISBN-10: 0140170413Description: 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 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 Britain's greatest historians, Sir Alistair Horne, CBE, is the author of a trilogy on the rivalry between France and Germany, The Price of Glory, The Fall of Paris and To Lose a Battle, as well as a two-volume life of Harold Macmillan.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: HistoryTopic: Military History, Law & PoliticsRelease Year: 1993 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Price of Glory
Title: The Price of Glory
EAN: 9780140170412
ISBN: 9780140170412
Release Date: 11/04/1993
Release Year: 1993
Subtitle: Verdun 1916
ISBN-10: 0140170413
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Book Title: Price of Glory : Verdun 1916; Revised Edition
Number of Pages: 388 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Topic: Europe / Western, Modern / 20th Century, Military / World War I
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 1994
Features: Revised
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: History
Item Weight: 9.8 Oz
Author: Alistair Horne
Item Length: 7.8 in
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Uk-B Format Paperback
