The Price of Glory is the essential book on the subject' 'Verdun was the bloodiest battle in history. 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. 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. 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. It was a battle in which at least 700,000 men fell, along a front of fifteen miles. 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. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. This book 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. This edition contains a new preface, and some new photographs. It is a sympathetic study of the men who fought there, and shows that Verdun is a key to understanding World War I - a key to the minds of those who waged it, to the traditions that bound it, and to the world that created them. This book is more than a chronicle of the facts of the battle. Verdun was the battle which lasted ten months the battle in which at least 700,000 men fell, along a front of 15 miles the battle whose aim was less to defeat the enemy than bleed him to death on the battleground whose once fertile terrain is even now "the nearest thing to desert in Europe".
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