The Price of Glory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Price of Glory write by Alistair Horne. This book was released on 2007-06-28. The Price of Glory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Battle of Verdun (1914-1918).
The Battle of Verdun (1914-1918). - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Battle of Verdun (1914-1918). write by . This book was released on 1919. The Battle of Verdun (1914-1918). available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Battle Story - Verdun 1916
Battle Story - Verdun 1916 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Battle Story - Verdun 1916 write by Chris McNab. This book was released on 2013. Battle Story - Verdun 1916 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Battle of Verdun was one of the bloodiest engagements of the First World War, resulting in 698,000 deaths, 70,000 for each of the 10 months of battle. The French Army in the area were decimated and it is often most tragically remembered as the battle in which the French were 'bled white'. A potent symbol of French resistance, the fortress town of Verdun was one that the French Army was loath to relinquish easily. It was partly for this reason that the German commander chose to launch a major offensive here, where he could dent French national pride and military morale. His attack commenced on 21 February, using shock troops and flamethrowers to clear the French trenches. Starting with the capture of Fort Douamont, by June 1916 the Germans were pressing on the city itself, exhausting their reserves. The French continued to fight valiantly, despite heavy losses and eventually rolled back German forces from the city. In the end it was a battle that saw much loss of life for little gain on either side.
The Verdun Regiment
The Verdun Regiment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Verdun Regiment write by Johnathan Bracken. This book was released on 2018-07-30. The Verdun Regiment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book on French soldiers during WWI is “a first-class narrative with an abundance of personal testimony from the officers and men of the regiment” (The Great War Magazine, Editor’s Choice). Although the French fielded the largest number of Allied troops on the Western Front in the First World War, the story of their soldiers is little known to English readers. The immense size of the French armies, the number of battles they fought, and the enormous losses they incurred, make it difficult for us to comprehend their experience. But we can gain a genuine insight by focusing on one of the defining battles of that war, at Verdun in 1916, and by looking at it through the eyes of a small group of soldiers who served there. That is what Johnathan Bracken does in this meticulously researched, detailed and vivid account. The French 151st Infantry Regiment spent fifty days under fire at Verdun in 1916 and another thirty-five in 1917 and lost 3,200 soldiers killed or wounded. Yet their ordeal was no different from that of hundreds of other infantry units that fought and endured in this meat-grinder of a battle. Their diaries and memoirs tell their story in the most compelling way, and through their words the larger human story of the French soldier during the war comes to life. “The book recounts the horror of intense artillery bombardments and men mown down in great waves. None of this is particularly pretty and the accounts do much to scatter notions of war as a glorious, thrilling experience. It was vicious and brutal utterly cruel.”—War History Online
Battle Story: Verdun 1916
Battle Story: Verdun 1916 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Battle Story: Verdun 1916 write by Chris McNab. This book was released on 2013-03-01. Battle Story: Verdun 1916 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Battle of Verdun was one of the bloodiest engagements of the First World War, resulting in 698,000 deaths, 70,000 for each of the 10 months of battle. The French Army in the area were decimated and it is often most tragically remembered as the battle in which the French were 'bled white'. A potent symbol of French resistance, the fortress town of Verdun was one that the French Army was loath to relinquish easily. It was partly for this reason that the German commander chose to launch a major offensive here, where he could dent French national pride and military morale. His attack commenced on 21 February, using shock troops and flamethrowers to clear the French trenches. Starting with the capture of Fort Douamont, by June 1916 the Germans were pressing on the city itself, exhausting their reserves. The French continued to fight valiantly, despite heavy losses and eventually rolled back German forces from the city. In the end it was a battle that saw much loss of life for little gain on either side.
