He retook part of the wood, but, as often happened, was mortally woundedsoon afterwards, with both. The attack was led by a distinguished French military writer, Lt-Colonel de Malleray. 164) : ' On March 29th, the French tried to replug the menacing hole in their lines at Bois d' Avocourt. Cond : Boards are orangey red with black spine badge. Extensive b/w photographs throughout text. LEARN more about : Lille, Vauban's Citadel, Bois de Corbeaux, Joffre purge, Mort Homme, Cote de l'Oie, Goose Ridge, Captain Oswald Boelcke, and General von Zwehl. The battlefield of Verdun is thought to have the greatest number of dead per square yard in all the Great War. Chapter one of this 372 page volume is called La Debacle. Condition: dust jacket creased and with stressed upper edge:spine ends bumped: ownership sticker and pencilled ownership inscription to front endpapers: a few small marks to slightly tanned pages: overall clean, tight and good. Using hitherto untranslated eyewitness accounts assessment of events from both German and French points of view portrayal of characters and relationships of leaders of both sides (Von Falkenhayn, the Kaiser, the Crown Prince Little Willy on the German side and Joffre, de Castelnau, Nivelle, Mangin and Petain on the French ) and analysis of the 1916 battle in its historical context, Alastair Horne, gives an hour by hour account of the conflict. Synopsis: The story of the Battle of Verdun, hugely influential to French history, and turning point of the first world war. Macmillan & Co, November 1962 reprint of the first October 1962 edition: red cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine: decorative dust jacket: approximately 5.75 x 8.75 inches tall: 371 pages including index: black and white photographic illustrations and map. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, 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. It was a battle in which at least 700,000 men fell, along a front of fifteen miles. 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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