The Price of Glory

Verdun 1916

Alistair Horne

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English

Penguin
28 June 2007

History; European history; First World War; Land forces & warfare; War & defence operations

The classic account of one of the most terrible battles in Europe's history - 2016 marks the battle's centenary

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.

By: Alistair Horne
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 277g
ISBN: 9780140170412
ISBN 10: 0140170413
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 28 June 2007
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

One of Britain's greatest historians, Sir Alistair Horne, CBE, is the author of several famous books on French history as well as a two-volume life of Harold Macmillan.

Reviews for The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916

As every history buff has known for at least a couple of seasons, World War I is now competing with the Civil War for scholarly and popular attention. If more than a handful of permanent contributions survive, this should be one of them. Mr. Horne has limited his study to the grimmest battle in all that grim war and has examined every action with the greatest care. This is a fascinating and splendidly articulated microcosm which can better old the general reader's comprehension of the macrocosm- the entire war and indeed many aspects of the half century which has followed it. In ten months, on a terrain less than four miles square, over a quarter of a million men were killed and nearly half a million gassed or wounded. It is all here: the blunders and stupidity, the squandered heroism, the indescribable fear, the hopeless misery, the enormous tragedy. Mrs. Horne has made it both comprehensible and unforgettable. (Kirkus Reviews)